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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.
This comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to epilepsy compares
and contrasts scientific knowledge, clinical experience and social
consciousness between Western and non-Western cultures, enhancing
transcultural understanding and providing a paradigm for an
integrative, truly global health policy for this disorder. Topics
covered include pharmacological and non-pharmacological management
of epilepsy; care models and traditional medical systems; service
organization in resource-limited countries; cultural perspectives
on consequences of epilepsy; social, anthropological, economic,
political, and spiritual issues related to living with epilepsy;
infectious and non-infectious causes and risk-factors;
region-specific syndromes. Uniquely drawing attention to both a
medical perspective and the burden of living with epilepsy, this is
a must-have reference work for epileptologists, neurologists,
epidemiologists, medical policymakers and health administrators in
both the developed and developing world.
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