Utah State University hosted a research event on Thursday to discuss growing dementia research at the university, to address a growing population of people with dementia and their caregivers.
SALT LAKE CITY — The number of Utahns with dementia is expected to grow by 23.5% between 2020 and 2025 — to 42,000 people.
Fauth, a human development and family studies professor at Utah State University, said Utah has people who live longer, so they are more at risk for age-related diseases; the state also has many retirees, leading to a larger elderly population and more people with dementia. "You can't be in the research world anywhere and not know the heaviness of the social burden of dementia anywhere in the world, but certainly in the U.S.," she said.
The school has about 15 faculty members who are affiliated with the Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Research Center, and there are many students who are actively completing and presenting research. Fauth, who directs the research center, said thegave $850,000 in ongoing funds to help establish the center and that they hope to work with community partners, engage students and expand their grants to other universities to collaborate on research.
"Families are doing the vast majority of the work, and it's intense and somewhat challenging work even if they want to be there," Fauth said. Fauth was involved in a USU study that found if caregivers met with a counselor on their own, and then with their entire family for four sessions, and then on their own again, the process decreased family conflict and increased the amount of support felt by the caregivers.
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