The purpose of the National Action Plan for Dementia in Greece is the care of people with dementia, the promotion of the mental health of elderly people and the prevention of dementia. There has been some good progress made, recently, in terms of the roll-out of some actions to support people with dementia. For the first time in the country, new units for the end stages, each accommodating up to 25 people with dementia, will open in Thessaloniki and Kalamata, under the auspices and funding of the Ministry of Health. At the same time, on 8 July 2021, it was decided to implement the creation of eight new nursing homes in various areas of Greece and to provide for the establishment of seven new day centres, mobile units and a psycho-geriatric centre.
Taking into account the ageing of the population, and in the framework of the National Action Plan for Dementia, it has also been decided to support the areas in Athens, Central Greece, and Central and Eastern Macedonia. In fact, in order to strengthen the interconnection of support services for people with Alzheimer's or other types of dementia, at the community level, there is an initiative in progress, combining the operation of day centres, memory clinics in hospitals, open care centres for the elderly and mobile units. We would like to thank the Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders for giving us this update on the current situation in Greece.
