Past Issues
Name Change for Dementia inFar East Asian Countries
Wen-Chen Ouyang, Yen Kuang Yang
In many Asian countries and the United
States of America, the diagnosis of dementia becomes
a pejorative, shameful, or stigmatizing
connotation, causing a handicap to caregivers or
family accepting an early diagnosis and comprehensive
intervention for dementia [1, 2].
Historically, the term “dementia” discouraged sufferers’
families, mental health professionals, neurologists,
and others to provide them with care,
because names for dementia in local languages
frequently mean the severe stage of dementia and
negative, hopeless or nihilistic feelings in therapy
or care [3, 4].
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