Renaming dementia – an East Asian perspective
| Autor: | Yen Kuang Yang, Mitsumoto Sato, Xin Yu, Wen Chen Ouyang, Norman Sartorius, Min Soo Lee, Ee Heok Kua, Helen F.K. Chiu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Population ageing Asia Eastern Public health MEDLINE Stigma (botany) medicine.disease Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Terminology as Topic mental disorders medicine Humans Dementia East Asia Geriatrics and Gerontology Psychology Psychiatry China Gerontology Aged Language |
| Zdroj: | International Psychogeriatrics. 26:885-887 |
| ISSN: | 1741-203X 1041-6102 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1041610214000453 |
| Popis: | Worldwide, the number of individuals with dementia is growing in an epidemic manner, with an estimated 35.6 million people affected in 2010 (Prince et al., 2013). With the population aging in Asia, dementia care will become a major public health challenge in this region in the coming decades. Over half of the patients with dementia in the world will live in Asia by 2030. In China alone, a recent review of dementia studies showed that there were 9.2 million dementia patients in 2010 (Chan et al., 2013). These figures are staggering. In many Asian countries, dementia is regarded as a shameful illness, and the local terms for dementia are derogatory. Dementia carries a stigma that may lead to patients’ reluctance in seeking treatment and delay in diagnosis. In addition, local names for dementia frequently conjure up pictures of severe stage of dementia, and may lead to therapeutic nihilism, discouraging mental health professionals from working with elderly patients with dementia. As Asia faces the challenges of a rapidly aging population and provisions of care for growing number of dementia patients, change in local names for dementia has become an issue of attention. |
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