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How You Can Help Contribute Toward Critical Research

- How You Can Help Contribute Toward Critical Research

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We at Neurodemcy MRU are very vocal about our advocacy. We are constantly talking about the topics of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases and how we need further research. Today, we wanted to talk about how you would be able to contribute toward obtaining the critical research that we all desperately need.

Here are a few ways that you can help contribute:

Educate Yourself

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First and foremost, it would be important to arm yourself with further knowledge about the present state of research and the present state of both dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. How are they presently being addressed? What common practices exist to help those that are diagnosed with the illness?

Knowing this empowers your voice. Knowing all this helps you inform others when they ask you about it. Knowing about all this will help you better express your thoughts and better express why we need further research.

Be Vocal

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Once you have armed yourself with further knowledge about both dementia and neurodegenerative diseases, it would be good to be vocal. If there are any health seminars in your area or any health-centered days, it would be important to attend and converse with others. If you can reach your local government representative, do so.

Engage them in conversation and express your desire for further research. Share your information. After all, no problem ever got solved just by keeping the necessary information to yourself.

Go Online

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One of the fastest ways to really get the word out regarding your advocacy is to go online. Find online groups. Join online forums and organizations. Support events which highly advocate further research. Each and every single post, reply, or even “like” will help spread the information.

In the world of today, action is best achieved when an idea has gone viral. You have a higher chance of your advocacy going viral online. Just be mindful of the words that you choose. There is no need to be vitriolic when you share your ideas. Always remember that there will be those that will disagree with you. Do not engage in anger. Always respond in kindness.

To Conclude

Always remember that further research into dementia and neurodegenerative diseases will benefit not just the current generations but all the ones that are coming after us. The cure for such diseases is important as there is nothing that is more heartbreaking than watching the mind of someone you love withering away to the point where they won’t even remember who you are.

How would you choose to contribute toward critical research?

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Beyond the Now: Why We Need Further Research

- Beyond the Now: Why We Need Further Research

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As you may know, Neurodemcy MRU is quite dedicated to advocating for further research for dementia and neurodegenerative diseases. Today, we wanted to elaborate further on why. As of present, less than three percent of government allocation for medical research is given to neuropathy.

Public Funded Care Is Too Expensive

What a lot of people tend to think is that a person who suffers from dementia or other neurodegenerative disease must have someone they can rely on. We always think of caring family members or even friendly and professional institutions that families put the afflicted in. While this is true for some, this is certainly not true for all.

Those who do not have anyone to care for them are usually handed over to the social care system. Countries like the US and the UK both have institutions in place to take in people who do not have anyone to care for them. In the UK alone, the cost is nearly billions of dollars. This will eventually harm society as a whole as the amount needed to fund public care will eventually be too much.

We Need a Cure

Presently, there is hardly any large effort toward finding a cure or fully understanding what these illnesses are. We need to better understand where this illness is coming from. What starts it? How do we effectively prevent it? How do we help those that are already diagnosed with it?

Most of the focus is developing better medicine to curb any pain or to better sedate those struggling with neurodegenerative diseases. Of course, these medications are highly expensive. Is this why we still don’t have a cure? It is because pharmaceutical companies are so busy trying to make a profit that they realize that there is no profit to be made in finding a permanent cure?

To Conclude

Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases affect millions of people all over the world. Countless of lives are torn up by a disease that continue to ravage minds. How many is acceptable until is too much? How many lives should be affected by these until we all galvanize and really push for further research?

We hope that you join us in raising our voices until we have enough pressure to obtain what we want: further research. With everything that we’ve discussed today, we want to know what you think. Why do you think we need further research into dementia and neurodegenerative diseases?

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