A registered Non-Profit responding to one of India's most exigent and least-spoken-of health crises: Alzheimer's and Dementia.
The Mishra Foundation is a registered Non-Profit voluntary organisation established to pro-actively engage with Alzheimer's and Dementia in India. Located in the heart of the country, we are committed to working nationwide, with partnerships growing across the United States.
We are fairly new on the horizon, but the need we address is age-old. This malaise is seen in every culture and every era, when elders begin to suffer the fallouts of quietly losing their memories. What transforms outcomes is how society steps forward — with dignity or with silence. Too often, families in India meet the dilemma with stolid silence. The Mishra Foundation is keen to address that silence.
The Vedic invocation Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah becomes our founding principle — to collectively inspire families and caregivers to face the situation with determination and compassion. Our heartfelt aspiration needs to be converted into empathetic instruction.
सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः। सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु। मा कश्चिद् दुःखभाग्भवेत्।
"May all beings be happy. May all be free from illness. May all see what is auspicious. May none suffer." — the four-thousand-year-old invocation that drives every programme we run.
Each programme maps to one dimension of Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah — together forming a complete response: Early diagnosis management/support, diagnosis, education, training, support and advocacy.
As we began operations, families from Tier-2 cities like Nagpur, Bhopal, Lucknow, Raipur — and from rural Madhya Pradesh — started approaching us. Cutting across every section of society, families in city apartments and rural countryside alike opened up to ask for information and support in caring for their loved ones. We find young adults managing a parent's dementia while raising their own children, caught in a rigmarole of endless challenges. Women, in particular, provide round-the-clock care with no support for themselves — bound by filial love to family members who are slowly forgetting them. It is a very trying and harrowing situation.
A world alive to the predicament of people living with Alzheimer's and Dementia. This aspiration is transformed into an operational responsibility, with a structured plan of action to support people living with dementia.
To place resources and trained caregivers where they are needed most, in order to support and help dementia patients with compassion and understanding.
Cognitive decline should never reduce a person's worth. Every programme we run reflects the dignity of the people we serve, and we will never allow that human angle to be forgotten.
We move forward relying on the best available research. The 2024 Lancet Commission gives us a roadmap: 14 modifiable risk factors that account for 45% of cases. We use the science, always.
Our programmes are not focused solely on the well-to-do or urban few. We build an inclusive community model that counts the resourceless and the really needy — the wellbeing of all families affected.
We are accountable for every programme, every outcome and every rupee we expend. For us, transparency is not a compliance requirement but an ethical one.
The daughter who has sleepless nights. The son who starts missing work. The grandchildren who grow up seeing both love and grief create turbulence at home. Because these complications are multi-dimensional, the Mishra Foundation adopts a holistic approach.
We draw on the Indian tradition of seva — selfless service — as a core value for families dutifully caring for those who can no longer care for themselves. Enlarged to a wider level, this principle guides communities to organise and rally around their most vulnerable and venerable members. India's philosophical traditions — the Vedas, the Charaka Samhita, the Upanishads — all place individual wellbeing at the core of community health. Suffering anywhere is everyone's responsibility.
Bhopal, India
Across India — urban, semi-urban and rural communities.
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh — and growing.
Building partnerships with foundations in the United States.
Online programmes, webinars and support circles across all time zones.
Every act of participation is a testament to compassion. Get involved →
"The vision to create a world that is aware and responsive to the predicament of people suffering from Alzheimer's and Dementia may be instrumental in placing resources and trained care-givers where they are needed. The attempt is to facilitate dignity, compassion and much-needed care."— Abhijeet Mishra, President, Mishra Foundation
