LOS ANGELES: Research has confirmed that the incidence of dementia in remote Aboriginal communities is the highest in the world, with head injuries and age the greatest contributing factors.
Researchers revisited a target group of Aboriginal people originally tested ten years ago, to review the clinical and socio-economic factors contributing to dementia, in the hope of improving detection rates and targeting preventative measures.
The researchers found that each year 21 out of every 1,000 Aboriginals over the age of sixty develops dementia, a rate at least twice as high as the general population…