The global impact of dementia on social, political, economic and health systems is of contemporary concern. As the world’s population ages, differentially, across countries in the Global North and Global South, dementia research and care has become embedded in primary mandates for action within the agendas of governments and health research and service organisations. Using notions of social problem construction and sociologies of legitimacy this paper seeks to explore dementia as Zeitgeist that has captured imaginations but as such is contingent and therefore precarious building an edifice that may be limited and may occlude dangers for people living with dementia. This paper argues for an applied sociological approach that recognises precarity and seeks to embed a sustainable praxis-focused axiology at macro, meso and micro levels in respect of approaches to dementia.

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作为时代精神的痴呆症：社会问题构建和当代干扰的作用

痴呆症对社会、政治、经济和卫生系统的全球影响是当代关注的问题。随着全球北部和全球南部国家之间世界人口老龄化的不同，痴呆症研究和护理已成为政府和卫生研究和服务组织议程内行动的主要任务。本文使用社会问题建构的概念和合法性社会学的概念，试图将痴呆症作为时代精神进行探索，这种时代精神已经捕捉到了想象力，但由于这种时代精神是偶然的，因此建造一座可能有限的大厦并可能为痴呆症患者排除危险。本文主张采用一种应用社会学方法，该方法承认不稳定，并寻求在宏观中嵌入以可持续实践为中心的价值论，