Molecular imaging of dementia

The increasing age of the population due to improvements in health care in the past century contributes to an increase in the number of people with dementia. However, with an appropriate support and symptomatic treatment, many patients can continue to have an active life and a good quality of life. Treatment and support work best if they are applied at an early stage and also new disease modifying treatments need to focus on predementia and presymptomatic stages of disease.