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From: Ageing, dementia and society – an epistemological perspective

Figure 15

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.

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