Alarm in Uganda over rising cases of dementia

World Health Organisation’s latest data shows that two-thirds of people with dementia worldwide live in low and middle-income countries. SHUTTERSTOCK

One in five people in Uganda aged 60 and above, has Alzheimer’s disease or related forms of dementia, prevalence studies show, supporting World Health Organisation’s latest data, showing that two-thirds of people with dementia worldwide live in low and middle-income countries.

According to the WHO Global Status Report on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2021, there are 55 million people with dementia worldwide.