Figure 8

The responses of participants from different ethnic groups to the following statement: ‘Dementia patients should be taken care of by professionals instead of family members’. When asked whether professionals should be employed to care for dementia patients, there was no significant difference in responses across ethnic groups, with 43.5 percent of Chinese, 46.8 percent of Malaysians, 34.9 percent of Indians, 40.0 percent of Caucasians, and 33.4 percent of Pakistanis who disagreed with hiring professionals to care for dementia patients to some extent (instead of using family members) and 29.4 percent of Chinese, 36.4 percent of Malaysians, 46.9 percent of Indians, 20.0 percent of Caucasians, and 16.7 percent of Pakistanis who at agreed with the same proposition to some extent.