There are quite a few interesting topics, including e.g. Caregiver burden, autonomy and participation, health services utilization etc.

The WHO SAGE India study would have affective and cognitive health measures that would contribute to your thesis. The variables collected include depression, a battery of cognitive tests impacted early in the dementing process, a timed walk, grip strength, vision, caregiving, health care utilization, social networks and other measures that would be very important predictors/determinants/outcomes of dementia. See for instance: http://apps.who.int/healthinfo/systems/surveydata/index.php/catalog/65 or www.who.int/healthinfo/sage and colleagues at the International Institute for Population Science in Mumbai.

thanks for your valuable suggestions. Looking forward for a good beginning.

Dear Amarnath:

I think, it would be very interesting if you conduct an investigation in relation to Health Economics in Elderly.

Examples:

1.- Erin Saito, Beau K Nakamoto, Mario F. Mendez, Bijal Mehta and Aaron McMurtray

Cost Effective Community Based Dementia Screening: A Markov Model Simulation.

International Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

Volume 2014 (2014) Article ID 103138, 6 pages.

2.- Shah A, Murthy S, Suh GK.

Is Mental Health Economics important in Geriatric Psychiatry in developing countries?

Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002 Aug; 17 (8): 758-64

Best wishes.

Diana from Perú.

Thanks for your valuable suggestions.

An interesting and needed topic for more research is elder abuse. Since you asked specifically about dementia, you could look at caregiver abuse or abuse by the patient to the caregiver or if in a long term care facilty, abuse of other residents.

thank you for the suggestions