DemClinic is India's first expert-led cognitive assessment platform for the elderly. DemClinic leverages telemedicine technology to increase access to dementia screening, diagnosis, and care. The platform will help in getting timely diagnoses and faster access to experts. This initiative will reduce the need for travel, eliminate the risk of contagious infection, mitigate the stigma by providing confidential assessment and provide equal access to care in the community. The goal of the platform is to reduce the treatment gap and circumvent issues pertaining to distance, scarcity of experts and indirect costs of seeking clinical services.
DemClinic platform is designed keeping with telemedicine guidelines of India 2020, and Mental Health Act 2017, and is an initiative of the Bangalore Chapter of Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India and Nightingales Medical Trust.
There is a comprehensive range of services that will be delivered through this platform. Memory screening for older adults with memory issues, interactive videoconferencing for dementia assessments, and management by experts for people with dementia, access to information on care services, resources, and support available locally, and periodic follow-up are various services to be provided by the platform.
