申論題

一、英譯中：（15 分）
 Narrative works about dementia, aging, and the Alzheimer’s composed by professional and amateur writers thrive in recent years. The surge of dementia writings occurred in many parts of the developed and developing worlds; Taiwan is no exception. Indeed, the impacts from dementia on the psychological and economical dimensions of family and the society do not take place overnight. But it is also indisputable that the recent interest in dementia and Alzheimer’s writing is by no means a coincidental publishing phenomenon. Our interest in the disease takes place at a time when general health condition improves and life span extends. Theoretically speaking, when aging population grows in percentile, dementia, aging and the Alzheimer’s become a part of our everyday life. Writings about aging and dementia, accordingly, become a self-reflexive move to write about our fear and anxiety, or in some versions, a forecast of our worst nightmare that even happens to a well-functional man and woman.