City-based Nightingales Centre for Ageing and Alzheimer's has received an award for being the most promising psychosocial intervention for people with dementia.
The award was presented by Foundation Mederic Alzheimer and Alzheimer's Disease International to Radha S. Murthy, managing trustee of Nightingales Medical Trust, at the 27th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International held in London recently.
The award carries a citation and a purse of 7,000 Euros. The centre is a 71-bed dementia care facility established in 2010 by Nightingales Trust, a non-governmental organisation, working for the care of the elderly since 1998.
Facilities
The centre has residential care, short-term/ respite care, daycare, memory clinic, mobile memory screening, dementia risk reduction programme, tele-dementia care services, caregiver training and research.
More than 3,000 persons have been screened and 675 assessed with acute memory problems in the past two years.
