Cultural diversity challenging in dementia care say Nurses on NurChat

Dementia is arguably the biggest health challenge of our time affecting over 850,000 people in the UK and growing. As a culturally diverse popluation, the number of people with dementia from minority ethnic backgrounds in the UK could rise by almost 7 times to 170,000 by 2051 according to the Alzheimer’s Society. The nature of cultural diversity including different languages, ideas, customs and health practices is likely to present local and national challenges in achieving personalised dementia care. Resources will become stretched even further if the cost of dementia care trebles to