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 be 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/
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