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Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE)

Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE)

URL: https://goltc.org/projects/goltc-1696582584

Access to careCare economyCOVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTCDementia care and supportStigma and discriminationSurvey measuresUnmet needsUnpaid / informal care BrazilIndiaIndonesiaJamaicaKenyaMexicoSouth AfricaUnited Kingdom Public (including government) Co-production methodsKnowledge-exchangeLiterature reviews and synthesisMixed methodsPolicy analysisQualitative studiesQuantitative data analysisSimulation modelsSurveysTheory of Change

Project website
https://stride-dementia.org/
Project status
Complete
Contact
Adelina Comas-Herrera
PI Name
Martin Knapp
Host institution
Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Institution web page
https://stride-dementia.org/
Team members
Co-led by Martin Knapp and Adelina Comas-Herrera at CPEC, LSE in partnership with Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), Dementia Alliance International (DAI) and other key research institutions and NGO partners in the seven countries. To know who was involved please visit the STRiDE website.
Funded by
UK Research and Innovation Global Challenges Research Fund
Award Number
ES/P010938/1

KEYWORDS / CATEGORIES

Countries
Brazil | India | Indonesia | Jamaica | Kenya | Mexico | South Africa | United Kingdom
Topics
Access to care | Care economy | COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC | Dementia care and support | Stigma and discrimination | Survey measures | Unmet needs | Unpaid / informal care
Funding Type
Public (including government)
Methods
Co-production methods | Knowledge-exchange | Literature reviews and synthesis | Mixed methods | Policy analysis | Qualitative studies | Quantitative data analysis | Simulation models | Surveys | Theory of Change
Project Summary

Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) led by the LSE was a four year project in 7 different countries (India, Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa and Jamaica) comprising ten different work packages. This project examined current practice, both at a national level and for individual families, both to help people living with dementia to live well, and to ensure that family and other carers do not face excessive costs that could impoverish them or compromise their own health. In addition to building research capacity, a core activity of the project was to understand the impacts of dementia in various cultural, social and economic contexts to support development, financing, planning, implementation and evaluation of National Dementia Plans.

Outputs

A few outputs are listed below. For more outputs please visit the STRiDE project website.

Salcher-Konrad, M, Shi, C, Patel, D, et al. Research evaluating the effectiveness of dementia interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic mapping of 340 randomised controlled trials. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2023;e5965. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5965

Breuer E, Freeman E, Alladi S, Breedt M, Govia I, López-Ortega M, Musyimi C, Oliveira D, Pattabiraman M, Sani TP, Schneider M, Swaffer K, Taylor D, Taylor E, Comas-Herrera A (2021) Active inclusion of people living with dementia in planning for dementia care and services in low- and middle-income countries, Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211041426

Farina N, Ibnidris A, Alladi S, Comas-Herrera A, Albanese E, Docrat S, Ferri CP, Freeman E, Govia I, Jacobs R, Astudillo-Garcia CI, Musyimi C, Sani TP, Schneider M, Theresia I, Turana Y, Knapp M, Banerjee S, on behalf of the STRiDE team (2020) A systematic review and meta-analysis of dementia prevalence in seven developing countries: A STRiDE project, Global Public Health, 15:12, 1878-1893. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2020.1792527

Evans-Lacko S, Farina N, Ferri C, Franzon AC, Godoy C, Hurzuk S, Jacobs R, Mata F, Mateus E, Musyimi C, Muyela L, Oliveira D, Ong E, Ortega M, Surawattananon N, Weidner W (2022) Don’t Forget I’m Human – Stopping Dementia Stigma. The STRiDE Anti-Stigma Toolkit, STRiDE Project, London. https://stridedementia.turtl.co/story/anti-stigma-toolkit/page/1

Breuer E, Comas-Herrera A, Freeman E, Albanese E, Alladi S, Amour R, Evans-Lacko S, Ferri CP, Govia I, Iveth Astudillo García C, Knapp M, Lefevre M, López-Ortega M, Lund C, Musyimi C, Ndetei D, Oliveira D, Palmer T, Pattabiraman M, Sani TP, Taylor D, Taylor E, Theresia I, Thomas PT, Turana Y, Weidner W, Schneider M (2021) Beyond the project: Building a strategic theory of change to address dementia care, treatment and support gaps across seven middle-income countries, Dementia, https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012211029105

Breuer E, Comas-Herrera A, Docrat S, Freeman E, Schneider M and the STRiDE team (2019) STRiDE Theory of Change Workshops: Guidance and Resources. STRiDE Research Tool No.1 (version 2), Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at LSE, London.