If you have any heart condition, it is likely you will be placed on one of the cardiac medications listed below. Your doctor can tell you which medications or combination of are best suited for you. We have listed the commonly prescribed drugs, their side-effects and drug interactions in two parts.

Swapna Kishore, a dementia resource person, talks to Dr. CT Sudhir Kumar on the importance of getting a dementia diagnosis and not treating it as a normal ageing process, how to select the right doctor, how to plan for a doctor consultation, the tests that the doctor may prescribe and how to plan reviews with your doctor.  

When someone shows symptoms like memory problems, confusion, unclear speech, inability to plan, or strange behaviour, we may wonder whether this is dementia and what we should do.

Caregivers of persons with dementia are often unsure how to talk about the loss of a family member or friend. Porrselvi A.P., a cognitive and psychosocial interventions specialist shares tips on how to break the news and how to help the person with dementia deal with the news.

Mala Sen had caregiving thrust upon her when her nonagenarian mother-in-law with full blown Alzheimer’s appeared in her life. She faced the challenges head on and says that she has emerged a stronger person in the process. A personal account:

A caregiver, all of a sudden

I became a care giver by default....

My husband's mother was developing Alzheimer’s which none of her 3 children were aware of .. A simple reason ..We have an insensitive approach to aging!