Future research on dementia relating to culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
About one in five older Australians were born overseas. However, there has been very little information published in Australia or internationally about dementia in persons from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. This limits our ability to plan for and provide evidence-based medical care, social care and aged care services to persons from CALD backgrounds. This paper describes challenges to conducting CALD dementia research; these include sampling, having valid instruments and costs. Nine key research recommendations in the areas of epidemiology, community knowledge, carers, service delivery, screening and assessment, medical management, residential aged care and minority CALD reached by consensus by an expert group are presented. The paper closes with some strategies to encourage CALD research. The material presented here will provide guidance for future research endeavours.
Low
Lee-Fay
LF
Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. lf.low@unsw.edu.au
Draper
Brian
B
Cheng
Ada
A
Cruysmans
Benedict
B
Hayward-Wright
Nicky
N
Jeon
Yun-Hee
YH
LoGiudice
Dina
D
Wu
Helen Zong Ying
HZ
Zogalis
Georgia
G
Brodaty
Henry
H
D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000208:ethnology*; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003469:Culture; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*