Observations on Alzheimer disease: a comparison of services in Japan and the United States
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1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.
Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
In both Japan and the United States, families provide most of the care to Alzheimer patients, but in Japan, the patient is more likely to live in a multi-generational setting. Three types of programs are described and compared: support groups, day care centers, and institutional care. Despite rapid growth in services, neither country yet provides a uniformly satisfactory level of service.