Dementia : a global approach /
edited by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy, Martin J. Prince, Jeffrey L. Cummings.
- 1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The aging brain and mind: cultural and anthropological perspectives / Mild cognitive impairment: current concepts and cross cultural issues / Alzheimer's Disease: the African American story / The syndrome of vascular cognitive impairment: current concepts / Debate: is vascular dementia more common in some parts of the world? / Infections and dementia -- the view from a developing nation / Nutrition and dementia -- where is the nexus? / The experience of assessing cognition across cultures / Assessing behavior in dementia across cultures / Quality of life in dementia: global perspective and transcultural issues / Caregiving for dementia: global perspectives and transcultural issues / Care arrangements for patients with dementia: China / Dementia services: developing rural and remote services / Non-pharmacological approachs: patient centred approaches / Perú (South America) / Nigeria / Australia / The United States of America/ Japan / China / The role of NGOs in raising awareness: Alzheimer's Disease International / Perspectives from a developing nation / The contribution of cross-cultural research to dementia care and policy -- an overview, focusing on the work of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group / Kua Ee Heok -- Seethalakshmi Ramanathan and Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy -- Hugh Hendrie -- J.V. Bowler -- Suvarna Alladi -- R. Stewart -- P. Satishchandra and Vijayan Joy -- Alan D. Dangour and Ricardo Uauy -- Kathleen S. Hall -- Vorapun Senanarong and Jeffrey L. Cummings -- Caroline Selai, Demetris Pillas and Annabel Dodds -- T. Alphons, E.S. Krishnamoorthy and K. Gomez -- Helen Chiu, Joshua Tsoh and Xin Yu -- Sadanand Rajkumar and Julia Lane -- S. Kalyanasundaram -- Mariella Guerra -- Richard Uwakwe -- David Ames and Eleanor Flynn -- Jeffrey L. Cummings -- Akira Homma -- Joshua Tsoh, Helen Chiu and Xin Yu -- Marc Wortmann -- Jacob Roy Kuriakose -- Martin J. Prince -- Preface -- 1. 2. 3. 4. Vascular cognitive impairment: 4A. 4B. Yes No 5. Cross cultural issues of global significance: 5A. 5B. 6. Assessment: 6A. 6B. 7. Psychosocial factors: 7A. 7B. 7C. 8. Service delivery and management: 8A. 8B. 9. The clinical approach to the person with dementia: 9A. 9B. 9C. 9D. 9E. 9F. 10. Raising global awareness: the role of non-governmental organisations: 10A. 10B. 11. Index.
Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are, nevertheless, neglected in the published literature. Dementia: A Global Approach fills this gap by integrating contemporary cross-cultural knowledge about dementia. Each section reviews the literature from the published, predominantly Western, perspective, contrasting it with empirical knowledge from non-Western cultures. Covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific areas of interest, detailed consideration is also given to care-giving models across the world and management of patients who have migrated between regions. Enriched with personal insights from clinical experts across the globe, this is a key text for neurologists, geriatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, epidemiologists and all those responsible for managing provisions of dementia services.