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From: Ageing, dementia and society – an epistemological perspective

Figure 21

This figure depicts the responses of participants to whether dementia can be cured by divine healing through prayer (‘Dementia can be cured by divine healing, such as through prayer’). The education level-dependent responses of participants are categorised according to educational attainment: ‘Diploma and below’, ‘Undergraduate degrees’ and ‘Postgraduate degrees’. ‘Strongly disagree’ and ‘agree’ responses were combined into a single subscale of ‘disagree’. ‘Strongly agree’ and ‘agree’ responses were combined into a single subscale of ‘agree’. The responses were as follows: 66.5 percent of individuals with a ‘Diploma and below’ and 62.3 percent of ‘Undergraduate degree’ and 56.3 percent of ‘Postgraduate degree’ holders do not believe that divine intervention is able to cure dementia.

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