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Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this volume approaches dementia from a variety of angles, exploring its historical, psychological, and philosophical implications. The authors employ a cross-cultural perspective that is based on ethnographic fieldwork and focuses on questions of age, mind, voice, self, loss, temporality, memory, and affect. Taken together, the essays make four important and interrelated contributions to our understanding of the mental status of the elderly. First, cross-cultural data show that the aging process, while biologically influenced, is also culturally constructed. Second, ethnographic reports raise questions about the diagnostic criteria used for defining the elderly as demented. Third, case studies show how a diagnosis affects a patient's treatment in both clinical and familial settings. Finally, the collection highlights the gap that separates current biological understandings of aging from its cultural meanings. As Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continue to command an ever-increasing amount of attention in medicine and psychology, this book will be essential reading for anthropologists, social scientists, and health care professionals.

Anthropology. --- Dementia. --- Medical anthropology. --- Medical anthropology --- Dementia --- Alzheimer's disease --- Public health --- Alzheimer Disease --- Aged --- Anthropology --- Clinical Medicine --- Social Sciences --- Brain Diseases --- Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders --- Medicine --- Tauopathies --- Adult --- Age Groups --- Behavioral Sciences --- Mental Disorders --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Health Occupations --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Neurodegenerative Diseases --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Persons --- Named Groups --- Diseases --- Physical Anthropology --- Anthropological aspects --- Alzheimer's disease. --- Anthropological aspects. --- Medical care --- Alzheimer disease --- Alzheimer's dementia --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Basal ganglia --- Presenile dementia --- Senile dementia --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses

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"The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies"--

Dementia --- Dementia. --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases

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The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualization ignores many of the factors which influence a dementia sufferers' prognosis, including their history with education, food and exercise as well as their living in different epistemic cultures. The central aim is to question the concept of prevention and analyze its impact on aging people and aging societies.

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