Manipal: Manipal College of Nursing, MAHE, Manipal, will organize a symposium on Advanced Dementia in collaboration with the University of West of Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland, UK on April 30 at the second floor hall of the Dr TMA Pai convention centre. The symposium will also include a focus group discussion on challenges faced by caregivers.
There is an immediate need to develop practical and theoretical understanding among practitioners, policy decision-makers and the public about advanced dementia, alongside an understanding of advanced dementia-related abuse and abandonment as India has an alarming four million people suffering from the illness.
There is an urgent need in India to develop dementia education aligned with the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Advanced dementia in India is a hidden problem which places individuals, and sometimes, their young carers at high risk of poverty and other inequalities.
Fifty million people are living with dementia globally and India has the second highest number of people suffering from it. In India, a majority of people with dementia live in multi-generational households and around 50% include children under the age of 16 (Dementia India Report, 2010). The majority of care is provided by family members and local home nurses.
