Rehabilitation Services for Young-onset Dementias: Examples from high and low-middle income countries

GOLTC Strengthening Responses to Dementia Interest Group webinar

Date: 28 November 2024

Time: 1pm-2pm GMT

Rehabilitation services for young-onset dementia are scarce yet essential. This webinar explores evidence-based therapies, service models, case studies from high and low-middle income countries and the role of telehealth in delivering accessible rehabilitation to people with young-onset dementia.

The webinar covers:

• Introduction to the Global Observatory of Long-Term care and welcome (Adelina Comas-Herrera, Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, LSE, UK).

• Introduction to the Strengthening Responses to Dementia Interest Group

• Presentation: Rehabilitation Services for Young-onset Dementias: Examples from high and low-middle income countries

• • Dr Aida Suárez Gonzalez, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London (UCL), London, UK

• • Dr Viviane Amaral-Carvalho, Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Unit, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• • Dr Faheem Arshad, Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Hosur Road, Bangalore 560030, India

• Discussion