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Croatia

For many years, dementia care in Croatia was provided traditionally by the family, without no organized support, and many people with dementia were undiagnosed. Treatment for people with dementia presenting with serious behavioural and psychiatric symptoms was provided on psycho-geriatric wards in psychiatric hospitals. Alzheimer Croatia, founded in 1999, provides information, support, and education to caregivers, as well as to health professionals including psychiatrists, and neurologists, and also raises public awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. The continuing voluntary work of Alzheimer Croatia has helped to encourage the development of other types of services for people with dementia in Croatia.We are proud in dementia care in Croatia in following three key points. First, The activities and continuous work of Alzheimer Croatia since 1999 in raising awareness through public activities, education, counselling, support, negotiation with authorities about Alzheimer’s disease and especially about the needs and problems of people with dementia (PWD) and their carers. Second, we would like to emphasize the activity of Croatian Alzheimer Alliance (30 professional and NGO organizations) in preparing content of National strategy to combat Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Croatia. Third, introduction of first Day hospital for PWD, the first state specialized public nursery unit and first palliative beds were established and become available for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in Croatia. We presume that National strategy to combat AD in the next years will become the powerful instrument in negotiation with policy makers in Croatia is term to ensure the better treatment and care for PWD equally in the different regions of Croatia.

Alzheimer’s disease ; dementia ; Alzheimer Alliance ; national strategy ; Croatia

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