Tackling Alzheimer’s Disease via Reforming Educational Policies in Thailand

Abstract

This critical commentary paper discusses how reforming educational policies and transforming ideas into real actions would provide long-term solutions to the incurable aspect of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in Thailand. The paper analyzes the implications of the Thai government’s inappropriate neoliberal policies to increase commodification of public education rather than solving the problems of low and uneven quality of Thai upper secondary education, which arguably are the major “fundamental causes” of higher incidence of AD and chronic stress. A thorough analysis of health issues via political economy and sociological lens will set a stage for tackling the root causes of AD.