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Fifty eight percent of people with dementia live in developing countries and Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) estimates this will rise to 68% by 2050. Dementia care in developing countries such as India has a long way to go due to several factors including poor awareness of dementia as a neuropsychiatric and medical condition affecting the brain. Inability to look beyond a medical model and therapeutic nihilism contribute to under recognition and under diagnosis by health care professionals. Dementia care goes beyond hospital and communities should be geared to support and care those affected by dementia and their families. It is in this context, the concept of dementia friendly communities (DFC) which aims to provide a better quality of life to those with dementia and people around them, assumes prime importance. Impressive work to make local communities dementia friendly has been taking place in many developed countries with public support and political will. However, in developing countries like India where we lack basic and robust healthcare infrastructure, the priorities are different and funding hard to come by. Hence we have to be innovative and should use an asset based solutions approach in being pragmatic about working towards dementia friendly communities. We also believe the approach and targets should be different while drafting the criteria for DFC in low resource settings. In India, we have brought out the draft guidelines on the criteria for DFC, which probably is first of its kind from a low and middle income (LAMI) country setting. The work has been grounded on the voices of people affected and caring for those with dementia. These national guidelines can easily be adapted to any other setting. This paper explores how these criteria can be adapted to non- Indian settings with limited resources. Supporting and sustaining people affected by dementia in their own local communities form the core principle of these guidelines. We also give a pragmatic framework on setting the criteria based targets intended for everyone who is working to make their community more dementia friendly.