Aging is Rapid in Asia
The World Health Organization (WHO) argues that countries can afford to get old if governments enact “active ageing” policies and programmes and it has been the core value of senior health care (WHO, 2002). The term “active ageing” represents a view that longer life must be accompanied by continuing opportunities for health, participation and security, if ageing is to be a positive experience. Ageing usually accompanies with declined cognitive ability due to various neuronal pathologies (review papers), leading aged people as victims of scams, getting lost, and of falling down due to degenerated ability of attention, memorization, visuospatial processing and of judgements (review papers). It has been emphasized that prevalence of dementia is a global issue (Prince M 2013, 2016). The report 'Dementia' from WHO in 2012 estimates that 35.6 million people were estimated to be living with dementia in 2010, and the total number of new cases of dementia per year worldwide is estimated to be 7.7 million, implying one new case every four seconds (WHO). According to Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, there is noticeable rising prevalence of dementia in Taiwan, shown in the statistics of 8.4 % of age range of 80 ~ 84 and even higher percentage of 16.3 of age range of 85 ~ 89 (citation). In Japan, the prevalence of dementia among older adults aged 65 years was 7.6% (1.89 million people) in 2005 and it was predicted that the number will reach 8.9% (2.92 million people) by 2020 (Fukuda R 2015). An autopsy study revealed that the pathology of Alzheimer Disease found among species has been constantly increasing since 1986 when they have started their longitudinal study and it reached 33.3 % of the cases in the period from 2012 to 2014 (Honda H 2016). Since our societies are rapidly aging in East to Southeast Asia (GBD 2013), the issue of dementia prevention cannot be overemphasized, especially.
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