Dementia, Pagal, or Neurocognitive Disorder: What Is In a Name?

By Doug McConnell   A recent BBC news story has drawn attention to the fact that there isn’t a word for “dementia” in many South Asian languages and some South Asian people living in the UK still use the stigmatising Punjabi word “pagal”, meaning “crazy” or “mad”. The news story implicitly assumes that the word […]
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