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Managing Alzheimer's patients in rural areas of developing country : Experiences of community NGO

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: National-health-registry based data demonstrates Psychosocial support & treatment-availability are major issues for Alzheimer's -sufferers in resource-poor-nations. Hence our Non-Government-Organisation analysed & made this public health-policy paper recommendation's. NGO's are close to rural/tribal-communities. Cost of running NGO is economical than medical-institution. Medical treatment cost is prohibitive and inaccessible for majority patients in Asia. Government-Health-Departments need to workout strategy to increase access to care. In resource-poor-setting unaffordable cost leads to poor-therapeutic-compliance & therefore high mortality. We developed training program to evolve sound /sustainable Alzheimer's-care for rural communities METHODS: No national-program for financial help to Alzheimer's patients exists in india. Treatment programs designed towards rural/tribal population needed. Since four years we offer guidance for drug-therapy-funding. This project is unique, as we are training NGO health workers to assist patients community in improving access to care. Depending on support given by donors, we provide financial-assistance for treatment. We improved access to governmental hospitals. Initially we started with two towns & intend to offer our services to 23 villages by 2027. RESULTS: We did face hiccups in mobilising volunteers/resources. Our strategy has minimum maintenance-cost & high-acceptability. Forums like AAIC-2023 conference must support NGO-activists to form workgroups with AAIC conference-participants to further develop this concept on larger scale. CONCLUSION: Economical-factors/access to therapy changes out-come of treatment. With little training, few resources our community NGO in rural/tribal India formed well knit volunteers-group who are giving free part-time dedicated service. psychosocial-support improves QOL reducing difficulties faces by resource-poor-southern countries. We urge participants to share views/expertise on this burning-issue at AAIC-2025-venue to come out with sustain.
DOI: 10.1002/alz70860_096312
Author: S Pal
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,200
OpenAlex ID: W7116923402
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