THE PROBLEM OF DEMENTIA IN AUSTRALIAN AB
THE PROBLEM OF DEMENTIA IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES: AN OVERVIEW
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P. A. POLLITT
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The concept of dementia in old age in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is intrinsically paradoxical. Firstly, few indigenous people reach old age. Secondly, from some indigenous points of view, dementia is either not recognized as a condition or as a problem, or, in the c