Dementia literacy in Greek, Italian and Chinese Australians

来自意大利、希腊和中国背景的人的痴呆症知识和信念将与第三代澳大利亚人进行比较。将从澳大利亚各地随机抽取每组500人进行电话调查。问题将评估痴呆症症状是否被识别，这些人认为导致痴呆症的原因，他们会去哪里寻求帮助，他们使用老年护理服务的可能性以及对痴呆症患者的耻辱。焦点小组将进行，以确定服务使用的障碍，并确定方法，以提高痴呆症的知识，在意大利，希腊和中国的群体。这些信息将用于改善社区教育和为来自不同文化和语言背景的痴呆症患者提供服务。新南威尔士大学的原发性痴呆症合作研究中心，新南威尔士州多元文化健康传播服务和澳大利亚阿尔茨海默氏症是这项研究的合作伙伴。

The dementia knowledge and beliefs of persons from Italian, Greek and Chinese backgrounds will be compared to third generation Australians. Five hundred persons from each group will be randomly selected from around Australia to be surveyed by telephone. Questions will assess whether dementia symptoms are recognised, what these persons think causes dementia, where they would go for help, how likely they are to use aged care services and stigma towards persons with dementia. Focus groups will be conducted to identify barriers to service use and identify methods to improve dementia knowledge in Italian, Greek and Chinese groups. This information will be used to improve community education and service delivery for persons with dementia from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre at the University of NSW, NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service and Alzheimer’s Australia are partners in this research.