Neurologists in Bahrain are urging the country to adopt a national development plan to combat dementia, after a report by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) revealed that most countries in the Middle East either have no such protocols, or have made very little progress in implementing them.
The ADI report stated that nearly three million cases of dementia were recorded in 2019, with the number expected to rise to around 14m by 2050, an increase of 367 per cent, the highest of any region in the world .