Forgetfulness is a common experience

It happens to everyone from time to time. You can’t quite put a name to someone’s face. You forget where you have put your keys. You can’t remember where you parked your car. Often such memory lapses happen because of tiredness, stress or because of a heavy schedule.

Serious and persistent memory issues may be due to dementia

But your forgetfulness-or that of someone you know- is getting worse, if memory slips are becoming more frequent and persistent, if they are affecting your work or family life, or are beginning to interfere with everyday life, it can be the beginning of a specific medical problem such as dementia. If there is a medical reason for your forgetfulness, the earlier you get help the better.

Help is available in Pune

There is help available for those with memory problems in Pune. Memory Clinic in Deenanath hospital started working in 2010. Soon after that an informal group viz. Alzheimer’s Support Group started to complement its work.  The clinic and the support group have been working with the twin objectives of providing help to take quality care of the patients and to help caregivers and their family members deal with caregiving issues. The activities are based on non-pharmacological model to help patients and their families. Though predominantly dementia patients and their caregivers are helped by the clinic and the support group, others facing memory problems also find support and assistance.