Zim cannot afford to ignore the silent dementia crisis

FOR years, Zimbabwe has focused much of its public health attention on communicable diseases, maternal health and more recently non-communicable illnesses such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension.

Yet another health crisis has been quietly unfolding in homes and communities across the country — dementia.

It is a crisis that has largely gone unnoticed, misunderstood and
neglected.

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