Australian association offers support to psychiatry institute
Rawalpindi:The Alzheimers Association of Western Australia will provide technical support to the Institute of Psychiatry at Benazir Bhutto Hospital for the welfare of Alzheimers patients and their caregivers.
Alzheimers Association (Western Australia) Chief Executive Frank J. Schaper has assured maximum possible support to the institute, particularly in running awareness campaigns and conducting training of caregivers and family members of Alzheimers patients.
They will support the institute in conducting research on the management of Alzheimers patients, said Professor of Psychiatry at Rawalpindi Medical College and Head Institute of Psychiatry Dr. Fareed Aslam Minhas while talking to The News here on Saturday.
The Institute of Psychiatry has started working on developing an old age psychiatry unit. In this regard, we are sending Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Asad Tameezuddin Nizami to the UK on a three-month training from the University of Manchester on how to organise old age services at the institute, he said.
A symposium on Alzheimers disease has been organised by Alzheimers Pakistan Rawalpindi Chapter (APRC) in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry at Benazir Bhutto Hospital two days back. In the symposium, we offered the services of the institute to APRC for the welfare of Alzheimers patients and their caregivers and emphasised on the importance of public awareness of Alzheimers disease, he said.
He said that Frank J. Schaper was the key speaker at the symposium. In his address, he touched almost all aspects of Alzheimers disease and suggested ways and means to help persons with Alzheimers and their caregivers, he added.
