Facts and Figures about Dementia (all disease included) Worldwide:
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
"State of Geriatric Mental Health in India", by Dr Om Prakash and Dr Prerna Kukreti, India, 2013.
..."Most common psychiatric illnesses in the Indian elderly population are depression, dementia and anxiety disorders.
Resources available to cater to the needs of elderly in the country are government and private psychiatric hospitals, non-governmental organisations and the family as caregivers.
Lack of awareness, inadequate training opportunities; inequitable distribution of health resources and virtual absence of chronic care disease models are the challenges that confound the future of geriatric psychiatry in India"...
Current Translational Geriatrics and Experimental Gerontology ReportsMarch 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp 1-6
link: http://indianpsychiatrist.blogspot.fr/2013/04/its-time-to-wake-up-indiafor-mentally.html?spref=fb
Resources available to cater to the needs of elderly in the country are government and private psychiatric hospitals, non-governmental organisations and the family as caregivers.
Lack of awareness, inadequate training opportunities; inequitable distribution of health resources and virtual absence of chronic care disease models are the challenges that confound the future of geriatric psychiatry in India"...
Current Translational Geriatrics and Experimental Gerontology ReportsMarch 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp 1-6
link: http://indianpsychiatrist.blogspot.fr/2013/04/its-time-to-wake-up-indiafor-mentally.html?spref=fb
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
MEMORY ASSESSMENT SERVICE MODEL, NHS UK
For professional carers planning to implement a Memory Clinic, here is a guidelines to followed carefully:
MEMORY ASSESSMENT SERVICE MODEL, NHS UK.
Pdf version: http://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/
MEMORY ASSESSMENT SERVICE MODEL, NHS UK.
Pdf version: http://www.kmpt.nhs.uk/
Saturday, April 27, 2013
"Voices of persons with dementia", by Swapna Kishore, Swapna Writes Blog, April 25, 2013.
....“We already know about dementia,” he told me. “It’s my father who has to accept it.”
So I asked him to tell me about his understanding of dementia and how it could be impacting patients and to explain which part of his father’s behavior was inconsistent with the symptoms or their consequences. For example, did he really expect his father to remember and follow instructions even though he knew his father was having short-term memory problems and also facing problems in understanding things?
The son was reluctant in the beginning, but a short while later, as I pushed him with some questions, he said, I never thought of it this way, and began using a different lens for the behavior that he had earlier considered stubborn and uncooperative.
He started recalling and reinterpreting episode after episode, like how his father may have felt cornered or angry when family members acted annoyed/ angry with him and issued orders. I heaved a sigh of relief.
Though he sounded unhappy that he and his family would have to understand and change so many things, he had started seeing the pointlessness of having unrealistic expectations that ignored his father’s diagnosis.
This was not just about an MRI showing something or a word on a prescription; his father’s life was changing, and the family would have to find different ways of interacting and being together with him."...
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So I asked him to tell me about his understanding of dementia and how it could be impacting patients and to explain which part of his father’s behavior was inconsistent with the symptoms or their consequences. For example, did he really expect his father to remember and follow instructions even though he knew his father was having short-term memory problems and also facing problems in understanding things?
The son was reluctant in the beginning, but a short while later, as I pushed him with some questions, he said, I never thought of it this way, and began using a different lens for the behavior that he had earlier considered stubborn and uncooperative.
He started recalling and reinterpreting episode after episode, like how his father may have felt cornered or angry when family members acted annoyed/ angry with him and issued orders. I heaved a sigh of relief.
Though he sounded unhappy that he and his family would have to understand and change so many things, he had started seeing the pointlessness of having unrealistic expectations that ignored his father’s diagnosis.
This was not just about an MRI showing something or a word on a prescription; his father’s life was changing, and the family would have to find different ways of interacting and being together with him."...
link: http://
Video: "Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease"
Video: "Inside the Brain: Unraveling the Mystery of Alzheimer's Disease
This 4-minute captioned video shows the intricate mechanisms involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the brain."
This 4-minute captioned video shows the intricate mechanisms involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the brain."
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
NEW DELHI 2014 : Asia Pacific Regional Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International.
NEW DELHI 2014: 17th Asia Pacific Regional Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International, 7-9 November 2014.
Friday, April 12, 2013
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