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Early Detection Camps
Free memory screenings and cognitive assessments, delivered with neurologists and community hospitals across India.
8.8 million Indians live with Alzheimer's or Dementia
A new case of dementia emerges somewhere in the world every three seconds. In India the scale is staggering and the silence is louder still. The Mishra Foundation exists to bridge that gap — with evidence-based, compassionate care.
India is home to 8.8 million people living with Alzheimer's and related Dementia — a number set to double by 2036. Yet India has fewer than 1,000 trained geriatric psychiatrists for 1.4 billion people, and the average gap between first symptoms and diagnosis is three to five years. In that window, families are guessing, exhausted and increasingly isolated.
The cost is not only financial. In India, over 90% of caregiving is provided by family members — predominantly women — as invisible labour that carries no salary, little recognition and enormous health consequences, with caregiver depression rates ranging from 40 to 75%.
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The 2024 Lancet Commission identified 14 modifiable risk factors that together account for 45% of all dementia cases globally. India — with a vast younger population currently in midlife, proactive intervention is most powerful.
Free memory screenings and cognitive assessments, delivered with neurologists and community hospitals across India.
Plain-language dementia education for schools, RWAs, senior groups and corporates — to remove stigma and speed up diagnosis.
Evidence-based practical training for families and professionals — shown to reduce hospitalisation rates by up to 28%.
Moderated peer groups where caregivers share, breathe and belong.
Funding and amplifying dementia research, with a focus on India-relevant care models and cost-effective interventions.
Policy engagement and public advocacy so that no person with Dementia/Alzheimers, and no caregiver, suffers in silence or without rights.
The Mishra Foundation was conceived with the recognition that India's response to Alzheimer's and Dementia falls decades behind what families actually need. We are a registered non-profit voluntary organisation with programmes running across India and partnerships growing with institutions in the United States.
We are not a large organisation. But we are a committed one — rooted in the oldest Indian understanding of collective civic duty: that the wellbeing of each person is the responsibility of the community.
Read our full story →"India has one of the world's richest traditions of collective care. The Foundation seeks to extend these shared values to address one of the quietest health crises of our time: Alzheimer's and Dementia."— Abhijeet Mishra, President, Mishra Foundation
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