Welcome to DemCon 2025

• Making hospitals and primary health centres dementia-friendly
• Integrating dementia into existing public health and elder care programs
• Cross-sector collaborations (Health, Social Welfare, Education, Law)
• Creating dementia-friendly communities and cities
• Youth for Dementia: Intergenerational programs and student engagement
• Technology-enabled models for outreach and support
• Models for outreach in rural, tribal, and underserved areas 

• Support Systems for persons with dementia and their family carers
• Future of Training: Technology, Simulation, and AI
• Training professional and informal caregivers
• Workforce development: Role of community health workers

• Understanding decision-making capacity and rights-based care
• Guardianship, advance care planning, and end-of-life decision-making
• Legal frameworks and protections for people with dementia
• Challenges in implementing existing policies and laws 

• Social enterprise and low-cost dementia care models
• Building Capacity of NGOs and Community-Based Organisations
• Digital tools, apps, and assistive technologies
• Home-based and community-based care models
• Public-private partnerships and financing mechanisms 

• Introducing palliative approaches early in the disease trajectory
• Cultural and ethical challenges in end-of-life decision-making
• Advance care planning, dignity, and comfort in late-stage dementia
• Integrating palliative care into community and home-based services 

• Cognitive screening tools for community and clinical settings
• Innovations in early diagnosis: AI, biomarkers, and others
• Culturally and linguistically adapted screening tools
• Addressing stigma and fear around diagnosis 

• Translating Lancet Commission risk factors into community interventions
• Addressing hearing, vision, diabetes, depression, and hypertension
• Community-level brain health programs across life stages
• Positioning dementia within India’s healthy ageing agenda 

• Population-level data on prevalence and caregiver needs
• Building research collaborations and capacity in LMICs
• Ethics in dementia research: consent, inclusion, equity
• Community-based participatory research models 

• State and national dementia action plans – progress, challenges, and way forward
• Role of NGOs, civil society, and philanthropy in influencing policy
• Aligning with global frameworks: WHO GDO, Decade of Healthy Ageing
• Role of media, storytelling, and social movements in advocacy 

• Role of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy) in dementia
• Mind-body interventions: Yoga, meditation, music, and art therapy
• Bridging traditional and modern medicine in community settings
• Research and evidence-based models for integrative care