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A two-day nationalist league connected dementia – DEMCON 2025 – volition beryllium held astatine the GITAM Medical College successful Visakhapatnam connected December 5 and 6.
The taxable of the league is “Dementia successful India and Andhra Pradesh – A Growing Public Health Emergency,” volition absorption connected strengthening India’s dementia ecosystem done awareness, research, policy, and implementation-driven action.
Dementia has emerged arsenic a nationalist wellness emergency, with much than 88 lakh aged Indians presently affected. According to the LASI-DAD 2023 study, Andhra Pradesh has a dementia prevalence of 7.7%, higher than the nationalist average. By 2036, astir 8 lakh radical successful the State are projected to beryllium surviving with dementia. Dementia’s disturbing impact—rangeing from representation nonaccomplishment and behavioural changes to semipermanent dependency—deeply affecting individuals, families, and nine astatine large. Due to wide ignorance and stigma, astir 90% of radical ne'er person a diagnosis.
There is simply a request for a trained dementia workforce, community-based support, and strengthening of territory intelligence wellness systems.
DEMCON 2025 aims to accelerate these efforts and enactment the emerging State-level dementia enactment plan.
Around 800 delegates including clinicians, researchers, policymakers, students, hospitals, aged property homes, caregivers, and elder-care organisations from crossed India are expected to participate.
The lawsuit is organised by Dementia India Alliance (DIA) successful collaboration with GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (GIMSER), Senha Sandhya Age Care Foundation, NIMHANS, Centre for Brain Research and Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) on with the Government Mental Health Institute, Visakhapatnam.
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