Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781135094591
Description: With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance of culture in shaping people's experiences of these illnesses, how Chinese culture shapes people's understandings of and responses to mental illness and dementia has yet to be interrogated to any depth. Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China breaks new ground in exploring how Ch.