Manipal Institute of Nursing to Host Symposium on Advanced Dementia
The Manipal Institute of Nursing will be hosting a symposium on 'Advanced Dementia' on 30th April 2019. The institute has collaborated with the University of West Scotland and with Alzheimer Scotland for this symposium.
The Manipal College of Nursing (abbreviated as MCN), Manipal, will be collaborating with Alzheimer Scotland of the United Kingdom (UK), and the University of West Scotland to organise a symposium on the topic ‘ Advanced Dementia’. This symposium on dementia and its details will be held on 30th April 2019, Tuesday.
The symposium will also be including focus group discussions on different challenges that are faced by the caregivers.
India has an alarming rate of about 4 million people suffering from the symptoms of dementia. This demands an immediate need of developing strong practical as well as theoretical understanding about advanced dementia among policy decision-makers, practitioners, and the common public. A core understanding of advanced dementia along with the abandonment and abuse related to it must be known to these people.
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There exists an urgent and immediate need all across India to develop education on dementia which is aligned with the Global Sustainable Development Goals. Advanced dementia that is hidden within the country of India is a massive problem which places the individuals and at times their young caretakers as well, at a high risk of several inequalities like poverty, etc.
On the global level, around fifty million people are somehow surviving with dementia. Unfortunately, India has recorded the second highest number of people suffering from dementia. The majority of people in India that are suffering from dementia live in households that are multi-generational. Around 50 per cent of the total number of sufferers are children that are under the age of sixteen. This was revealed in the Dementia India Report of the year 2010.
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The report also said that most of these sufferers are taken care of by their family members and some local home nurses. The families of most people suffering from dementia take care of them and provide in-house assistance.