Rand study learns from medical breakthroughs to improve treatment for dementia

Following limited progress with dementia innovation efforts, the Department of Health (DH) has commissioned RAND Europe to examine breakthroughs in the treatment of other conditions and to identify potentially transferable and adaptable lessons for the dementia context. The past few decades have seen a number of medical breakthroughs that enabled the effective treatment of a range of conditions, including HIV and Breast Cancer, transforming them from fatal into manageable ones and DH is interested in the potential to learn from other disease areas to better understand the particular social, economic, political, legislative and scientific contexts that have contributed to accelerating