2015 Volume 26 Issue 2 Pages 169-172
4,620,000 people with dementia and 4,000,000 people with mild cognitive impairment were reported by Japanese government, and dementia prevention measure is regarded as urgent problem. The Japanese Society of Dementia Prevention was started in 2011 to take measure of dementia prevention. The aims of this society are to promote dementia prevention, to cultivate human resources who participate in dementia prevention, to cooperate many job category and community cooperation, and to create scientific evidence of dementia prevention. Initiative of dementia prevention started from Kotoura-cho, Tottori-prefecture and is spreading over the whole country. We made specialized person for dementia prevention and authorized medical technologist for dementia territory as human resources who participate in dementia prevention. We also made the committee for evidence creation and is now in preparation of scientific evidence. It seems to have many joint ownership between the Japanese society of cerebral blood flow and metabolism and the Japanese society of dementia prevention.
