Introduction: dementia home care in India (includes download)
In India, almost all persons with dementia are cared for at home; caregiving is done by, or coordinated by family members. To effectively support dementia care in India, contributors need to understand the challenges faced by home caregivers, and how home care differs from care provided in facilities designed for persons with dementia. On this page:
Why it is important to understand home care situations
Understanding and appreciating home care situations is necessary to be able to provide effective advice for multiple situations. Examples where this understanding is required to help caregivers include:
- Assist home caregivers in accepting dementia, adjusting their lives for care, learning necessary dementia caregiving skills
- Counsel families that are stressed or are facing problems balancing the caregiving work with other responsibilities
- Help families evaluate the pros and cons of options like day care and respite care
- Enable smooth transitions for persons from full home-based care to arrangements that include use of day care, respite care, or long-term residential stay facilities.
Understanding home care realities is also necessary for persons designing services for families.
Introducing the Dementia Caregivers
The presentation below provides an introduction to the caregiver role and what care activities are. You can view the document at Slideshare if the viewer below does not load properly.
Dementia Home Care in India (download available)
This brief document below provides a quick overview of the dementia home care situation in India. You can view the document at Slideshare if the viewer below does not load properly. (Or download as PDF here: Dementia Home Care: Context and Challenges in India)
(Download as PDF here: Dementia Home Care: Context and Challenges in India)
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Additional references/ resources
- Detailed discussions on care context and challenges for home care in India: Understand caregiving realities, issues, challenges
- An earlier blog entry discussing this: Understanding dementia home care in India
Pages in this section:
Resources: If you want to help caregivers/ spread dementia awareness
- Understand dementia and care in the Indian context
- Action Areas to Contribute to, and Possible Approaches
- Community-level work: A Dementia-Friendly India
- Focus: Improve Dementia Awareness
- Focus: Create Dementia Services and Products, Facilitate Support Forums
- Project ideas for students, artists, and others
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