The policy outlines that efforts to achieve healthy and productive brains must be supported through balanced nutrition, physical activities, and cognitive, spiritual and social stimulations. The efforts should be supported by families, society, and the environment. These efforts are supposed to create a healthy lifestyle that reduces risk factors and reduces the risk of developing cognitive impairment in older people (Ministry of Health Republic of Indonesia, 2015b). The policy did not explicitly state the intersection with mental health care.

References:

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.