Dr.sc. Osman Kučuk
Born in the Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently in the position of director of the Centre for Dementia in Sarajevo and president of the Alzheimer Association AiR-Alzheimer BiH
He helds PhD and he is dementia expert from the aspect of psychology and care for 13 years. The creator and leader of the team that founded the Center for Dementia as the unique institution in SE Europe. Expert from practice whose “Dementia Rehabilitation Program” based on a non-pharmacological and multi-professional approach is implemented in the Center with outstanding results in terms of improving the condition of the person affected by dementia.
He wrote several publications and two textbooks: “Dementia – how to proceed” and “Dementia from the point of view of primary health care”. On the beginning of the april 2020. he wrote „Dementia in pandemic of Covid-19“ accepted as the official guidelines in B&H and Monte Negro. Alzheimer Disease International published work on their website as third global work. Author of the scientific-research work “Dementia as an epidemic of BH society” which defines the number of people affected by dementia. He is a co-author of the transnational guidelines „Interprofessional Managment of Dementia“ which used in implementation of the Dementia Master Classes hold in the Western Balkan Region funded by DAAD. Also, he was co-author in development of the materials for online multi-disciplinary learning platform within the INDEED project, education in 6 languages (German, English, Slovenian, Slovak, Romanian and Bulgarian). Team leader of several scientific research projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was advisor in development of the „Towards a dementia-inclusive society“-WHO toolkit for dementia-friendly initiatives.
Educator and trainer on the topic of non-pharmacological approach in dementia therapy, which he implements through: the programs of the Center for Dementia, Dementia Master Class within iCoDem(international Congress on Dementia) and internal educations in the nursing homes.
He was president of the Working Group for development of the Strategy for improvement condition on the field of dementia in Canton Sarajevo for the period 2024.-2030. adopted 30th December 2024. by the Cantonal Government. It is the first Strategy in SE Europe.
He conducted over 12,000 examinations of people with symptoms or dementia.
He is designer of the BH friendly society which gather important public and private health and social care institutions as well as other legal entities. Also the network has more than 3.000 dementia friends
Participant of many global, regional and domestic conferences on the topic of dementia and in several of them he was in organizational or scientific committees. He leads the organization of iCoDem – an international congress on dementia, which took place every two years in Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina and leading event on dementia in this part of Europe.