Dementia comes of age in the developing world
2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 361; Issue: 9361 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(03)12783-3
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
ResumoBy 2025 about three-quarters of the estimated 1200 million people aged 60 years and older will be living in developing countries. 1 WHO. Active ageing: a policy framework. Geneva: WHO, 2002: http://www.who.int/hpr/ageing/ActiveAgeingPolicyFrame.pdf (accessed Feb 21, 2003). Google Scholar The "greying" in the developing world is predicted to rise despite deaths due to malnutrition, poverty, human conflicts, and infectious diseases including AIDS. Accounts like that of Hawa Sacko 2 Baxter J. Mail's 125-year-old woman. Dec 5, 2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2543879.stm (accessed on Feb 21, 2003). Google Scholar of Bamako, Mali, exemplify increased longevity in the developing world. Although she could not remember all the names of her great-grandchildren, her vivid memories and firsthand accounts from the 1890s of the west African warlord and leader of Malinke descent, Samory Touré, and the arrival of French immigrants enable social workers to place her age at 126 years as probably the oldest living person. Despite her frailness and weak ears and eyes, her mind and her spirit are still strong and active. She attributed this good state to nothing special but a normal diet and her faith in God. Dementia diagnosis in developing countries: a cross-cultural validation studyOur algorithm is a sound basis for culturally and educationally sensitive dementia diagnosis in clinical and population-based research, supported by translations of its constituent measures into most languages used in the developing world. Full-Text PDF
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