1. Newspaper and Magazine Articles
PUBLISHED DATE: 10/10/2015
SOURCE: The Hindu
HEADLINE: Line-up of leading global dementia experts announced for UK’s first cross sector international dementia conference. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 06/8/2015
SOURCE: Carehome uk
HEADLINE: Living with dementia is a traumatic experience for both patients and caregivers. The writer talks to families who cope with the reality of watching a loved one slip away slowly into a world of forgetting. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 18/11/2016
SOURCE: Times of india
HEADLINE: Shrinks join subjects in virtual world to stave off ‘threats .. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 07/02/2019
SOURCE: Knappily.com
HEADLINE: Dementia grows silently in india. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 02/11/2019
SOURCE: Deccan Chronicle
HEADLINE: Caregivers of dementia patients burdened: Expert. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 10/10/2020
SOURCE: NEWS 18
HEADLINE: Dementia is Not a Disease: Health Experts Bust Common Myths On World Mental Health Day. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 19/12/2020
SOURCE: The Hindu
HEADLINE: Depicting challenges of dealing with dementia on screen. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 10/5/2017
SOURCE: scroll.in
HEADLINE: Living with dementia: The searing ache of being a family caregiver in an Indian city. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 13/09/2019
SOURCE: Dementia trust
HEADLINE: DSDT WORK WITH DEMCARES IN SCARF IN CHENNAI, INDIA. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 03/11/2020
SOURCE: Indian Express
HEADLINE: Explained: What the largest study on dementia hopes to achieve. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 22/09/21
SOURCE: The Hindu
HEADLINE: Dementia inpatient care centre inaugurated at Selaiyur. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 10/2/2018
SOURCE: United news of india
HEADLINE: Seminar on elder care held. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 11/12/2019
SOURCE: Rediff
HEADLINE: What you must know about Dementia. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 18/4/2022
SOURCE: The Hindu
Are you aware of these support groups in Chennai? To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 22/11/2020
SOURCE: The Hindu
Just a fraction of an estimated 5 million Indians with dementia and Alzheimer’s are diagnosed. Do we need a new policy to ensure their well-being? To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 04/11/2020
SOURCE: Financial express
HEADLINE: Dementia symptoms, treatment: Over 50 lakh in India suffer from this disease; all you need to know. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 01/11/2019
SOURCE: Business standard
HEADLINE: 3-day global conference on dementia begins in Kochi. To know more, click here
PUBLISHED DATE: 03/9/2020
SOURCE: Times of india
These patients have borne the burnt of lockdown. To know more, click here
2. Academic publications
2.1 Journal Articles
1. Perkins L, Fisher E, Felstead C, Rooney C, Wong GHY, Dai R, Vaitheswaran S, Natarajan N, Mograbi DC, Ferri CP, Stott J, Spector A. Delivering Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Virtually: Developing and Field-Testing a New Framework. Clin Interv Aging. 2022;17:97-116. To know more, click here
2. Naylor R., Vaitheswaran S., Nyame S., Boateng D., Mograbi D.C. (2021) Dementia in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. In: Selin H. (eds) Aging Across Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 10. Springer, Cham. To know more, click here
3. Vaitheswaran S, Balasubramanian S, Natarajan N, et al. Ethical Issues in Delivering Psychological Therapies in Geriatric Psychiatry in India. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine. July 2021. To know more, click here
4. Natarajan, N., Vaitheswaran, S., Lima, M.R., Wairagkar, M. & Vaidyanathan, R (2021). Acceptability of Social Robots and Adaptation of Hybrid-Face Robot for Dementia Care in India: A Qualitative Study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Published online. To know more, click here
5. Monisha Lakshminarayanan, Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Nivedhitha Srinivasan, Gayathri Nagarajan, Ahalya Ganesh, Kunnukatil S. Shaji, Mina Chandra, Murali Krishna & Aimee Spector (2021) Cultural adaptation of Alzheimer’s disease assessment scale–cognitive subscale for use in India and validation of the Tamil version for South Indian population, Aging & Mental Health. To know more, click here
6. Currie G, Gulati K, Spyridonidis D, Vaitheswaran S. Distributing leadership for scaling up evidence-based innovation in LMICs: a case for leadership development in India. BMJ Leader Published Online First: 25 March 2021. To know more, click here
7. Stoner Charlotte R., Chandra Mina, Bertrand Elodie, DU Bharath, Durgante Helen, Klaptocz Joanna, Krishna Murali, Lakshminarayanan Monisha, Mkenda Sarah, Mograbi Daniel C., Orrell Martin, Paddick Stella-Maria, Vaitheswaran Sridhar, Spector Aimee. A New Approach for Developing “Implementation Plans” for Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) in Low and Middle-Income Countries: Results From the CST-International Study. Frontiers in Public Health, 8, 2020, 342 ISSN=2296-2565. To know more, click here
8. Spector A, Stoner CR, Chandra M, Vaitheswaran S, Du B, Comas-Herrera A, Dotchin C, Ferri C, Knapp M, Krishna M et al. Mixed methods implementation research of cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) for dementia in low and middle-income countries: study protocol for Brazil, India and Tanzania (CST-International). BMJ Open. 2019 20;9(8):e030933.
9. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy – An international perspective – India: Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Monisha Lakshminarayanan and Shruti Raguraman; in Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for Dementia: History, Evolution and Internationalism (Aging and Mental Health Research). Routledge 2018; Editors: Lauren A. Yates, Jen Yates, Aimee Spector, Martin Orrel, Bob Woods
10. Stoner CR, Lakshminarayanan M, Mograbi DC, Vaitheswaran S, et al. Development and acceptability of a brief, evidence-based Dementia Awareness for Caregivers course in low- and middle-income countries. Dementia. 2022;21(2):598-617. To know more, click here
11. Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Graeme Currie, Vijaya Raghavan Dhandapani, Greeshma Mohan, Thara Rangaswamy, Swaran Preet Singh. Implementation of first episode psychosis intervention in India – A case study in a low-and middle-income country, SSM – Mental Health, Volume 1, 2021, 100018, ISSN 2666-5603. To know more, click here
12. Leroi I, Vaitheswaran S, Sheikh S, Chaudhry N, Goswami S P, Miah J, Sakel M, Tofique S, Husain N, oC. Capacity & capability building for applied dementia research in low- & middle-income countries: Two exemplars from South Asia. Indian J Med Res 2020;152:614-25. To know more, click here
13. Lima MR, Wairagkar M, Natarajan N, Vaitheswaran S and Vaidyanathan R (2021) Robotic Telemedicine for Mental Health: A Multimodal Approach to Improve Human-Robot Engagement. Front. Robot. AI 8:618866. To know more, click here
14. Du B, Lakshminarayanan M, Krishna M, Vaitheswaran S, Chandra M, Kunnukattil Sivaraman S, Goswami SP, Rangaswamy T, Spector A, Stoner CR. Psychometric properties of outcome measures in non-pharmacological interventions of persons with dementia in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Psychogeriatrics. 2021 Mar;21(2):220-238. Epub 2020 Dec 17. PMID: 33336529; PMCID: PMC7986620. To know more, click here
15. Lamech N, Lakshminarayanan M, Vaitheswaran S, John S, Rangaswamy T. Support groups for family caregivers of persons with dementia in India (innovative practice). Dementia. October 2020. To know more, Click here
16. Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Monisha Lakshminarayanan, Vaishnavi Ramanujam, Subashini Sargunan, Shreenila Venkatesan. Experiences and Needs of Caregivers of Persons With Dementia in India During the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Qualitative Study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2020, ISSN 1064-7481. To know more, click here
17. Lamech N, Raghuraman S, Vaitheswaran S. and Rangaswamy T. The Support Needs of Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia in India: Implications for Health Services. Dementia. 2019 Aug;18(6):2230-2243. To know more, click here
18. Raghuraman S, Lakshminarayanan M, Vaitheswaran S and Rangaswamy T. Cognitive Stimulation Therapy for dementia: Pilot studies of acceptability and feasibility of cultural adaptation for India. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2017; 25(9): 1029-1032.
19. Telemental health – Video conferencing in mental health services: Sridhar Vaitheswaran, Philip Crocket, Sam Wilson and Harry Millar; Advances in psychiatric treatment (2012), vol. 18, 392–398
2.2 Published Abstracts
Natarajan, N., & Vaitheswaran, S. (2021, July). Impact of COVID-19 and Imposed Lockdown on Presenting Complaints of Persons with Dementia and Challenges Faced by Caregivers in India. In 2021 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference. ALZ.
Natarajan, N., Vaitheswaran, S., De Lima, M. R., Wairagkar, M., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2019). P4‐630: use of a hybrid face robot in dementia care: understanding feasibility in India. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 15, P1569-P1569.
2.3 Conference Presentations
Oral presentation
Natarajan N, Vaitheswaran S, Lima RM, Wairagkar M, Vaidyanathan, R (2020, December). “Recognition of Facial Expression of Emotions by Persons with Rarer Types of Dementia” [Conference Presentation]. The 34th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Singapore.
Poster presentations
Natarajan N, Vaitheswaran S, Lima RM, Wairagkar M, Vaidyanathan, R (2021, July). “Use of Social Robots in Dementia Care: A mixed-methods Study of Feasibility in India” [Poster Presentation]. International conference on Schizophrenia (IConS) 2021, Chennai, India.
Natarajan N, Vaitheswaran S (2020, December). “Use of Potentially Inappropriate Psychotropic Medications and Polypharmacy in Persons with Dementia in Chennai, India” [Poster Presentation]. The 34th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Singapore.
Wairagkar M, Lima M, Natarajan N, Vaitheswaran S, Vaidyanathan R (2019). “Social Robotic Support for Dementia Patients and Carers in Healthy Environments” [Poster Presentation]. UK Dementia Research Institute Connectome 2019, London, UK.