Hayawi hayawi 🥳🥳Baada ya miezi kadhaa ya kujitahidi kutengeneza zana ya Kiswahili ya kuzuia unyanyapaa ya ugonjwa wa dementia, tuna furaha kwamba sasa tunaweza kushiriki nyenzo hii.
The Swahili version of this tool kit means it will be accessible to a wide audience of Swahili-speaking communities and nations.
We recognize that while a lot of effort is put towards developing useful materials, some go underutilized due to language barrier.
The dementia anti-stigma tool kit was developed under the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Low and Middle-Income Countries (STRiDE) project which Kenya is part of.
It provides practical tools from seven different low- and middle-income countries to address the impact of stigma against people living with dementia and their care partners. It also highlights the first-hand experiences of stigma and discrimination and the detrimental consequences it has on individuals and their families.
Its development was based on input from people with dementia and their caregivers and incorporated findings from the STRiDE project on reducing stigma and discrimination.
The resource tool is intended to equip all people including the general public to understand dementia better and in turn fight stigma.
Various studies and research have shown that stigma towards dementia is prevalent.
Globally the number of people living with dementia is expected to more than triple, from over 50 million currently to 152 million by 2050 which is why reducing dementia stigma is critical.
Pata masomo zaidi hapa:https://stridedementia.turtl.co/…/mwongozo-wa-kupinga…/
You can also find more information about a pilot study demonstrating that a community health promoter-led intervention for reducing dementia stigma in rural Kenya is both acceptable and feasible.
Linkhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38905046/