Dementia: A Global Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521857767 ISBN 13: 9780521857765

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

Dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. Covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific topics, this book reviews the literature from the published, predominantly Western, perspective, contrasting it with empirical knowledge derived from non-Western cultures. Enriched with personal insights, this is a key text for neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and epidemiologists.

About the Author:

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, California, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521857767
• ISBN 13: 9780521857765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Krishnamoorthy Ennapadam S., Prince Martin J., Cummings Jeffrey L.