Figure 26
From: Ageing, dementia and society – an epistemological perspective

The responses of participants to the following statement: ‘Dementia patients should be cared for by professionals instead of family members’. With 46.6 percent of the 19–30 age group, 33.0 percent of the 31–40 age group, 35.6 percent of the 41–55 age group, 33.0 percent of the 56–65 age group and 26.7 percent of the >65 age group disagreeing, and with 25.3 percent of the 19–30 age group, 42.0 percent of the 31–40 age group, 50.0 percent of the 41–55 age group, 60.4 percent of the 56–65 age group, and 66.7 percent of the >65 age group agreeing with this proposition.