What Ethnicity Does Alzheimer Affect The Most?
Ethnicity and the Experience of Alzheimer's Disease
The needs of people from ethnic communities who have Alzheimer's disease have received little attention. This can easily be demonstrated by looking at the paucity of information in medical books, journals, and from published research papers. When the subject of ethnicity is addressed it is often very broadly defined. Yet ethnicity plays a very important part in the experience of dementia and how beliefs affect the ways people live with it.
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