Dementia in South Africa: a situational analysis

Jacobs, Roxanne, Schneider, Marguerite, Farina, Nicolas, du Toit, Petra, Docrat, Sumaiyah, Comas-Herrera, Adelina ORCID: 0000-0002-9860-9062 and Knapp, Martin ORCID: 0000-0003-1427-0215 (2023) Dementia in South Africa: a situational analysis. Dementia. ISSN 1471-3012

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Abstract

There is a need in South Africa to understand the status of available care and support to strengthen responses to dementia. This study provides a situational analysis of the current provisions of health, care and support for older persons, people living with dementia and their families in South Africa. It is a first step towards describing the landscape of needs and services available, and provides an evidence base to inform priority-setting for strengthening responses to dementia in South Africa. This situational analysis was conducted in three phases: (1) a desk review guided by a comprehensive topic guide which includes the WHO’s Global Dementia Observatory indicators; (2) multi-sectoral stakeholder interviews to verify the secondary sources used in the desk review, and to identify gaps and opportunities in policy and service provisions; and (3) a SWOT-analysis examining the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in current care and support provisions in South Africa. Our findings highlight the gaps and opportunities with current service provision and show how structural factors create barriers to diagnosis, support, and care. There is an urgent need for intersectoral policy responses to support and strengthen current health, social care, and long-term support systems so that people living with dementia and their families can live and age well. This paper forms part of a larger study on strengthening responses to dementia (The STRIDE project).

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2023.
Divisions:	Personal Social Services Research Unit
Subjects:	H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Date Deposited:	14 Jul 2023 15:24
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2024 18:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/119756

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