Figure 15From: Ageing, dementia and society – an epistemological perspective The responses of participants from different religious backgrounds regarding whether they believed that dementia can be cured through divine healing, such as through prayer (‘Dementia can be cured through divine healing such as prayer’). Some Christians (34.9 percent), Muslims (21.8 percent), Hindus (15.9 percent), Buddhists (9.3 percent), Freethinkers (5.2 percent), Taoists (11.1 percent) and Others (0.0 percent) agreed with the proposition, whereas other Christians (34.8 percent), Muslims (51.2 percent), Hindus (62.4 percent), Buddhists (80.4 percent), Freethinkers (88.1 percent), Taoists (84.4 percent) and Others disagreed.Back to article page