Alberta Health aims to improve dementia care in new strategy

The province’s primary care system must expand its ability to care for people with dementia, while an ongoing public awareness campaign is required to improve Albertans’ understanding of the increasingly prevalent illness, a new government report says.
Those are among the top recommendations of the province’s long awaited Dementia Strategy and Action Plan, released Tuesday, which also includes calls to make Alberta a leader in dementia research and to enhance the public’s