Free memory screening for adults over 50

Most people who worry about their memory never tell anyone. They notice themselves searching for a name, or walking into a room and losing the reason, and they decide quietly that it is probably age and probably nothing. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they are not, and the years in between are the years when something could have been done.

Satoru Foundation offers free memory screening to anyone over fifty in Hyderabad.

What screening is, and what it is not

A screening is not a diagnosis. It is a short set of structured questions and tasks that tells us whether your memory and thinking are where we would expect for your age and education. If everything looks as it should, we tell you so, and that is worth knowing. If something stands out, we explain what we found and help you reach a neurologist or psychiatrist who can investigate properly. We do not diagnose dementia and we do not prescribe.

Signs worth getting checked

• Repeating the same question or story within a short span
• Struggling with money or bills that used to be straightforward
• Getting confused on a familiar route
• Losing track of the day, the month or the season
• Withdrawing from conversation because following it has become hard work
• Changes in mood or temper that are out of character

Forgetting a name and retrieving it an hour later is ordinary. A pattern that is getting worse over months is worth an hour of your time.

What happens at a screening

Thirty to forty minutes. We ask about your health and daily life, then work through validated screening tools — the same ones used in hospital geriatric clinics. A family member is welcome to sit in. You get your results explained in plain Telugu, English or Hindi before you leave, with a printed copy.

Two ways to get screened

• Come to our office in Punjagutta — call +91 99594 85500 to book a time.
• Ask us to come to you — we run free screening camps at apartments, old age homes, places of worship and community halls. If you can gather thirty or more people, we will bring the camp. Request a camp for your apartment.

Both are free. There is no catch and nothing is sold to you at the camp.

If worry about a parent's memory is weighing on you, our counsellors can help with that too.