Alzheimer's (AHLZ-high-merz) disease is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person’s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out daily activities. As Alzheimer's progresses, individuals may also experience changes in personalit and behavior, such as anxiety,suspiciousness or agitation, as well as delusions or hallucinations. The brain is perhaps the most awesome and complex example of divine engineering. In performance and ingenuity, it surpasses even the most powerful computer devised by mankind. and containing some 100 villion neurons or nerve cells, it controls and determines who we are, what we do and how we do it. Our Objectives
||| To give support, provide succor, help and information to families of persons affected by dementia.
||| To secure from the Governmental and non-governmental sources, better facilities for care, for and on behalf of, those affected by dementia.
||| To promote and support research into the causes and prevalence of dementia.
||| To encourage training of health personnel in the geriatric care and dementia.
||| To bring to the attention of various governmental agencies the needs of the demented, especially the
Need to have dementia recognized as a handicap of the elderly, so that they are placed on par with people suffering from other such handicaps and to ensure that resources are reallocated in a more equitable manner.
||| To educate the general public about dementia through all available media.
||| To develop “help lines” to those who have to care for the demented by setting up help groups and by linking and creating networks of such support services to make them more productive and economical and to integrate them within the social and cultural milieu of India.
||| To arrange and conduct training programs for care-givers and to organize seminars, medical camps and relief work.
||| To perform works of charity and to render relief to victim of natural or other disasters such as famines, floods, epidemics, wars etc. irrespective of cast and creed.
||| To promote activities for awareness generation of the people of the society against environmental pollution.
||| To publish or cause to be published useful literatures, magazines, leaflets etc.
||| To provide guidance in legal matters to the demented and to intervene on their behalf wherever or whenever necessary or feasible.
||| To help the needy students of all communities for the prosecution of studies.
||| To provide incentive and encouragement to other voluntary associations and individuals engaged in research in Alzheimer’s and related disorders and in the care and management of the demented.
||| To open branch/branches in any District for the betterment of the societies with prior permission from the Registrar of Societies, Govt. of Assam.
||| To do all such things as are incidental or conductive to the attainment of the above objectives or any one of them. The incomes and properties of the association whatsoever derived or obtained shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the association and no portion thereof shall be paid to or divided among-st any of its members by way of profits. Executive Committee:
President Emeritus: Dr.Ajaya Mahanta
President: Dr.Ankumoni Saikia
Vice president: Dr. Neelakshi Mahanta
Secretary: Dr.Sidhartha Das
Joint Secretary: Miss. Debastuti Baruah & Mrs.Kabori Das
Treasurer : Mr. Rajkamal Bhuyan
Executive Member's:
Dr.Dipesh Bhagabati (Ex. Officio)
Dr.Priyam Goswami (Ex. Officio)
Mr.Biswadip Barooah
Dr.Padmapani
Mr.Subhabrata Shrama
Mr.Prasanta Das
Mrs.Anjana Goswami
Dr.Rupali Baruah
Miss Indrani Laskar
