Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-20

A local health foundation held a campaign on Wednesday to raise awareness about dementia and how to prevent it.

Centenarians, doctors, academics and entertainers are standing together to call the public’s attention to the effects of dementia on the elderly. On Wednesday, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia organized a campaign to raise awareness of the disease and to inform the public of ways to delay its development.

According to health ministry statistics, there are over 270,000 people in Taiwan who suffer from dementia. The figure is projected to increase by 10,000 every year.
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