The Framing of Dementia in Scientific Articles Published in Alzheimer's and Dementia in 2016

Abstract. The present article involves a qualitative study of the framing of dementia in Alzheimer’s and Dementia, the Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, published in 2016. The aim of this study is to elucidate how dementia is framed qualitatively in the corpus consisting of scientific articles involving dementia published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia. The results of the qualitative analysis indicate that dementia is represented in Alzheimer’s and Dementia in 2016 as the frames associated with gender, age, costs, caregiver and care-recipients, disability and death, health policy, spatial orientation, medical condition, and ethnic groups. These findings are further discussed in the article.