The Indonesian dementia national plan aims to manage Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and to enable healthy and productive ageing. The plan has three main objectives:

1. Mainstreaming efforts to achieve healthy brains for productive ageing through a life-cycle approach at every level of national development,
2. Improvement of service quality towards cognitive impairment and dementia,
3. Strengthening of managerial aspects to optimize efforts towards healthy brains.

The strategy uses a life-cycle approach, with emphasis on quality-of-service improvement and strengthening managerial capacity (Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 2015b).

There are seven action steps in this national dementia strategy:

1. ‘Campaign on Public Awareness and Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles,
2. Advocacy of human rights for people with dementia and their caregivers,
3. Ensuring access and information of quality services,
4. Implementation of early detection, diagnosis, and holistic management of cognitive disorders and dementia,
5. Establishment of System to Reinforce professional and sustainable human resources,
6. Establishment of System to Reinforce Cognitive Health Programs as main factor to increase literacy of nation based on life course approach,
7. Implementation and Application of Research on cognition and dementia’ (Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 2015a, pp.5-6).

References:

Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia. (2015a). Ministry of Health Regulation No. 67/2015 on Geriatric Services in Public Health Center (Permenkes No. 67/2015 Tentang Penyelenggaraan Pelayanan Kesehatan Lanjut Usia Di Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat). Kementrian Kesehatan Indonesia, 1–140.

Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia. (2015b). National Strategy: Management of Alzheimer and Other Dementia Diseases: Towards Healthy and Productive Older Persons. Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia.