Internationale Zeitschrift für Physikalische Medizin und Rehabilitation
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ISSN: 2329-9096
ISSN: 2329-9096
Aisha Zayed Al-Ali
Discussing social issues related to Alzheimer's in the local press is an unheeded topic. This paper discusses Alzheimer's topics that have been released to the public through a number of articles introduced based on international topics from the medical, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals firms, interviews with caregivers, clinicians, physicians, and other dementia issues relayed from biographies and stories of some of the public figures. The aim is to understand how the local press discusses Alzheimer's and presented it to the public in the United Arab Emirates; in this paper, I investigate the language pattern of Alzheimer's topics mentioned in a set of data corpus of 95 articles from five major English newspapers.
To achieve this, all searched articles were reviewed, using critical discourse analysis. I surveyed five major newspapers by looking at the content provided in daily newspapers, searching for the topics related to Alzheimer's and how it is presented to the public. To limit the scope of this study, the focus was on those articles that have been published during the past three years, from January 31, 2018, to January 31, 2021, in the United Arab Emirates.
Results: Nearly half of the articles are in medical research, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals firm studies majority were preemptive and with an awareness voice. The article's tones were 52% positive, 31% negative, and 18% neutral. 25% of the articles focus on the UAE particularly interviewing specialists and promoting services and facilities, 11% are biographies of famous people with Alzheimer's and personal stories of dear persons with Alzheimer's, 5% are local conferences and workshops most of them were positive, and 5% are technology facilitation.
Conclusion: The report has indicated that Alzheimer's disease topics are not sufficiently addressed and discussed.