Over the past decades aging population has been escalating rapidly in Taiwan which follows a lot of diseases for the elderly including "Dementia"!
Alzheimer disease takes up more than half of the "Dementia" diagnosis in Taiwan.
Taiwan's own culture/civilization which differentiate from the western world, the approach taken is not the same to the outside world! For example, most of the family of the patient prefer to take care of him/her at home instead of allocating into relevant nursing home. It is a kind of ethical concept within Taiwanese society that kids should take up his/her obligation to take care of their parents!
In my opinion, carer at home even play a more important role than professionals working in nursing home. The reason is; he/she has to take ethicality into account whereby professionals didn't have to bother.
Prior fully discussed with a couple of home carers (kids of the patient), he/she agreed that patients stayed at home could impart better result on avoiding speedy deterioration of "Amnesia", in spite of using drugs; they devoted love, care and tolerance which harmonizing patient's emotion/spirit in a matter of weeks!
As aging population turn out to be a trend worldwide, Dementia will be escalating in the next decade, how to contain such disease become a big issue to all countries concerned and no exception to Taiwan.
As a matter of fact, Taiwanese government has been highly alarm on deamatic increase of dementia disease during the past years and injecting funding to addres the issue.
We have heapts of NGO croping up during the last few years trying to help our society confronting Dementia; besides more and more nursing homes run by hospitals also join the team tackle the problem. At the present moment, our NGO is recruiting professional carers as to assist patients with Dementia. From this year onward our government is conducting a series of survey throughout Taiwan (with the help from some specially appointed NGO) to find out latest data taking place over Taiwan with Dementia. Final result will be released withint the next couple of years!
In accordance with my observation on Dementia disease over Taiwan for the past years, I strongly believed that "psychosocial intervention" will be the most effective way to contain the disease.
Even though most of us realized that there is no remedy for Dementia up till now, nevertheless, we can still find ways and means to delay the period of deterioration. Carer (specially kids of the family) is playing an important role to bring patient's livelihood back to normal!
Ultimately, I have to sign off with my heartiest wishese and belssings to all patients with Dementia worldwide, hoping their desease could be completely wiped out one day!
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