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Copyright © 2012 G. Nair et al. G. Nair et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Rapid rise in the population of older adults in India will lead to the need for increased health care services related to diagnosis, management, and long-term care for those with dementia and cognitive impairment. A direct approach for service provision through memory clinics can be an effective, successful, and sustaining means of delivering specialized health care services. We have established a memory clinic in Mumbai, India by employing the diverse clinical skills available in Indian academic institutions, diagnostic and research expertise of clinicians and psychologists, and the support of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Our project involved recruitment of patients, clinical and neuropsychological assessment, and standardized diagnostic procedures, demonstrating the feasibility of using research methods to develop a memory clinic. In this paper, we describe the development of a community-based memory clinic in urban India, including linguistic and cultural factors and present detailed results, including diagnostic characterization, on 194 subjects with various stages of cognitive deficits. Our findings support the feasibility of developing a memory clinic in a public hospital and successful use of research diagnostic criteria to categorize cognitive deficits observed in this population, which may be used to inform the development of other such clinics.

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Title
Characterizing Cognitive Deficits and Dementia in an Aging Urban Population in India
Author
Nair, G; K. Van Dyk; Shah, U; Purohit, D P; Pinto, C; Shah, A B; Grossman, H; Perl, D; Ganwir, V; Shanker, S; Sano, M
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISSN
20908024
e-ISSN
20900252
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1347348333
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 G. Nair et al. G. Nair et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.