Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), Avenue du Stade de France, 93218, Saint-Denis La Plaine, France.
Arch Public Health. 2012 Aug 28;70(1):21. doi: 10.1186/0778-7367-70-21.
Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias are public health priorities in the European Union due to their prevalence, cost and profound impact on society. Because of these pressing implications, the European Union decided to create a Joint Action to share knowledge about dementia and health policy in order to preserve the health, quality of life, autonomy and dignity of people living with dementia and their carers in Europe.
ALCOVE is a European Community-funded Joint Action coordinated by the HAS (French National Authority for Health) with a 24-month duration. The project's life cycle has been divided into the following four steps: (1) collection of existing information, (2) analysis of existing information and making comparisons across Member States, (3) identifying Evidence, Needs, and Priorities, (4) drafting recommendations and disseminating them.
19 countries are participating in the ALCOVE initiative. The project will publish its final findings in 2013. The project's objectives, participants, method, on-going procedures and work plans are already available on the ALCOVE website: http://www.alcove-project.eu/. Preliminary results show that recommendations will need to focus on clinical and epidemiological data collection, diagnostic system assessment, outstanding approaches for treating behavioural disorders, limiting antipsychotic use, and competence assessment in this vulnerable population.
The European Member States involved are mobilized to share best health policy practices in order to tackle the challenge of dementia's threat on European health and social systems and to improve the quality of life and care for individuals and their family carers.
由于阿尔茨海默病和其他相关痴呆症在欧洲联盟的普遍性、成本和对社会的深远影响，这些疾病成为了欧盟的公共卫生重点。由于这些紧迫的影响，欧盟决定创建一个联合行动，以分享有关痴呆症和卫生政策的知识，从而维护欧洲痴呆症患者及其护理人员的健康、生活质量、自主权和尊严。
ALCOVE 是一个由欧盟委员会资助的联合行动，由 HAS（法国国家卫生管理局）协调，为期 24 个月。该项目的生命周期分为以下四个步骤：（1）收集现有信息，（2）分析现有信息并比较成员国之间的情况，（3）确定证据、需求和优先事项，（4）起草建议并进行传播。
19 个国家参与了 ALCOVE 倡议。该项目将于 2013 年公布最终结果。该项目的目标、参与者、方法、正在进行的程序和工作计划已经在 ALCOVE 网站上公布：http://www.alcove-project.eu/。初步结果表明，建议需要侧重于临床和流行病学数据收集、诊断系统评估、治疗行为障碍的新方法、限制使用抗精神病药物以及评估这一弱势群体的能力。
参与的欧洲成员国正在动员起来，分享最佳的卫生政策实践，以应对痴呆症对欧洲卫生和社会系统的威胁，并改善个人及其家庭护理人员的生活质量和护理。
