Dementia: A Global Approach

by Edited by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy , Martin J. Prince , Jeffrey L. Cummings

• ISBN13: 9780521857765
• ISBN10: 0521857767
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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, first published in 2010, 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.

Author Biography

Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy is Director and T.S. Srinivasan Chair, The Institute of Neurological Sciences, VHS Hospital, Chennai, India. Martin J. Prince is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Jeffrey L. Cummings is Augustus Rose Professor of Neurology, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director of the UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center, and Director of the Deane F. Johnson Center for Neurotherapeutics, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. vii
The aging brain and mind: cultural and anthropological perspectives	p. 1
Mild cognitive impairment: current concepts and cross-cultural issues	p. 7
Alzheimer's disease: the African American story	p. 27
Vascular cognitive impairment	p. 31
The syndrome of vascular cognitive impairment: current concepts	p. 31
Debate: is vascular dementia more common in some parts of the world?	p. 37
Cross-cultural issues of global significance	p. 47
Infections and dementia: the view from a developing nation	p. 47
Nutrition and dementia: where is the nexus?	p. 55
Assessment	p. 63
The experience of assessing cognition across cultures	p. 63
Assessing behavior in dementia across cultures	p. 73
Psychosocial factors	p. 87
Quality of life in dementia: global perspective and transcultural issues	p. 87
Caregiving for dementia: global perspectives and transcultural issues	p. 99
Care arrangements for patients with dementia: China	p. 107
Service delivery and management	p. 113
Dementia services: developing rural and remote services	p. 113
Non-pharmacological approaches: patient-centered approaches	p. 117
The clinical approach to the person with dementia	p. 123
Peru (South America)	p. 123
Nigeria	p. 127
Australia	p. 131
The United States of America	p. 137
Japan	p. 141
China	p. 147
Raising global awareness: the role of non-governmental organizations	p. 153
Alzheimer's Disease International	p. 153
Perspectives from a developing nation	p. 159
The contribution of cross-cultural research to dementia care and policy: an overview, focusing on the work of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group	p. 163
Further reading	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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