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California Healthline
California Healthline
Oanh Meyer was a postdoctoral fellow studying the experiences of caregivers for those with dementia in 2012 when her research took a very personal turn. That year, her mother, a Vietnamese immigrant, began to show signs of dementia and paranoia that seemed to be linked to the trauma she had suffered during the long war in Vietnam, when bombing raids often drove her to hide underground and she lived in fear of Communist troops. Growing up as a Vietnamese American, Meyer had noticed a reluctance to address mental health issues in her community, an issue she pursued in her studies. She conducted …