There are no national or county guidelines in Kenya on dementia management, making clinicians to rely on the typical path described previously. In one of the counties (Makueni) in Kenya, clinicians were trained by the Africa Mental Health Foundation (NGO) using the mental health Global Action Programme (mhGAP) (World Health Organization, 2016) to identify and manage priority conditions such as dementia. However, due to limited mental health budget, it was not possible to roll-out the programme to all the counties in Kenya  (Mutiso, Gitonga, et al., 2018). This makes it difficult to identify any differences in assessment in the different regions.

References:

Mutiso, V. N., Gitonga, I., Musau, A., Musyimi, C. W., Nandoya, E., Rebello, T. J., … Ndetei, D. M. (2018). A step-wise community engagement and capacity building model prior to implementation of mhGAP-IG in a low-and middle-income country: a case study of Makueni County, Kenya. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 12(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0234-y

World Health Organization. (2016). mhGAP Intervention Guide version 2.0. Geneva, Switzerland. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241549790