Living with dementia in southern Africa is a heartbreaking challenge

In a region where family members have historically served as caretakers for older relatives, proper care for an aging population has become more difficult.

Titus Ihemba, who lives in a care facility, is attended to by his daughter on a rare visit to his village in Rundu in northern Namibia. Care for older people in Africa usually falls to families, with informal kinship networks serving as one of the primary ways to look after the aging population.

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