{"id":79088,"date":"2025-09-02T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79088"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:31:09","slug":"africas-elderly-face-deadly-witchcraft-accusations-and-dementia-is-making-it-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/africas-elderly-face-deadly-witchcraft-accusations-and-dementia-is-making-it-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s elderly face deadly witchcraft accusations \u2013 and dementia is making it worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LGRmt.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Ayder Kanyomushana, 81, was accused of witchcraft by her neighbours and \u2018almost killed\u2019 (AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An 81-year-old woman was brutally beaten by her neighbours in Uganda, who accused her of witchcraft and blamed her for a prolonged drought. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/africa-s-elderly-face-deadly-witchcraft-accusations-and-dementia-is-making-it-worse\/ar-AA1LGKaW?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=83b0142c0caf4d40af80321898a9988d&amp;ei=33\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>An 81-year-old woman was brutally beaten by her neighbours in Uganda, who accused her of witchcraft and blamed her for a prolonged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/witch-camp.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79089,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79088\/revisions\/79089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}