应对老年期痴呆国家行动计划（2024—2030年）/National Action Plan for Addressing Dementia in Older Age (2024-2030)

日前，国家卫生健康委、国家发展改革委、民政部等15部门联合印发《应对老年期痴呆国家行动计划（2024—2030年）》（以下简称《行动计划》），全面推动老年期痴呆应对工作。

《行动计划》提出，实施健康优先发展战略和积极应对人口老龄化国家战略，坚持预防为主、防治结合，坚持强化照护、扩大供给，坚持政府主导、社会参与，建立健全老年期痴呆防控体系，促进实现健康老龄化。到2030年，痴呆防控科学知识基本普及，老年人认知功能筛查全面开展，老年期痴呆风险人群得到早期干预，规范化诊疗机制更加完善，照护服务能力稳步提升，老年期痴呆预防、筛查、诊疗、康复、照护综合连续防控体系基本建立，老年期痴呆患病率增速得到有效控制，老年期痴呆友好的社会环境建设取得积极成效。

《行动计划》明确，宣传老年期痴呆防控科普知识，将老年期痴呆防控作为基本公共卫生服务健康教育和人口老龄化国情教育重点内容；开展老年期痴呆筛查与早期干预，建立基层医疗卫生机构、医院、疾控机构等共同参与认知功能筛查与早期干预的工作机制、服务网络和队伍；提升老年期痴呆规范化诊疗服务水平，通过基层医疗卫生机构与上级医院的双向转诊，构建老年期痴呆的“筛查—诊疗—康复—随访”全病程管理服务体系；增加痴呆老年人照护服务供给，建立居家、社区和机构相衔接的老年期痴呆照护服务模式，根据疾病不同阶段为痴呆老年人提供有针对性的照护服务；构建老年期痴呆友好的社会环境；强化应对老年期痴呆的科技支撑能力；加强应对老年期痴呆对外交流与合作。

Recently, 15 departments including the National Health Commission, National Development and Reform Commission, and Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly issued the "National Action Plan for Addressing Dementia in the Elderly (2024-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), comprehensively promoting the response to dementia in the elderly.

The Action Plan proposes to implement the strategy of prioritizing health development and actively respond to the national strategy of aging population, adhere to the principle of prevention first and combining prevention and treatment, strengthen care and expand supply, adhere to government leadership and social participation, establish and improve the prevention and control system of dementia in the elderly, and promote the realization of healthy aging. By 2030, the scientific knowledge of dementia prevention and control will be basically popularized, cognitive function screening for the elderly will be comprehensively carried out, early intervention will be provided to elderly dementia risk groups, standardized diagnosis and treatment mechanisms will be more perfect, care service capabilities will steadily improve, a comprehensive and continuous prevention and control system for elderly dementia prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation, and care will be basically established, the growth rate of elderly dementia incidence will be effectively controlled, and positive results will be achieved in the construction of a friendly social environment for elderly dementia.

The Action Plan specifies the promotion of popular science knowledge on the prevention and control of dementia in the elderly, and regards the prevention and control of dementia in the elderly as a key content of basic public health services, health education, and national education on population aging; Carry out screening and early intervention for dementia in the elderly, establish a working mechanism, service network, and team for grassroots medical and health institutions, hospitals, disease control institutions, etc. to jointly participate in cognitive function screening and early intervention; Improve the standardized diagnosis and treatment service level of elderly dementia, and establish a "screening diagnosis treatment rehabilitation follow-up" full course management service system for elderly dementia through two-way referral between grassroots medical and health institutions and higher-level hospitals; Increase the supply of care services for elderly dementia patients, establish a model of elderly dementia care services that connects home, community, and institutions, and provide targeted care services for dementia patients at different stages of the disease; Building a dementia friendly social environment for the elderly; Strengthen the technological support capability for coping with dementia in the elderly; Strengthen external communication and cooperation to address dementia in the elderly.