Dementia: A public health crisis?

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Almost a year after the World Health Organisation declared Dementia including Alzheimer's Disease as a Non-Communicable Disease, the WHO is all set to declare it as a Global Health Crisis, urging governments across the world to make it a health priority. For India this declaration is crucial, given that 90 per cent of the cases go undetected.

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