Dementia in Latin America: An Emergent Silent Tsunami

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INECO Foundation, Favaloro UniversityBuenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los AndesBogotá, Colombia.
² Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INECO Foundation, Favaloro UniversityBuenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del CaribeBarranquilla, Colombia; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo IbáñezSantiago de Chile, Chile; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its DisordersSydney, NSW, Australia.

Sandra Baez et al. Front Aging Neurosci. 2016.

. 2016 Oct 28:8:253.

doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00253. eCollection 2016.

¹ Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INECO Foundation, Favaloro UniversityBuenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Psicología, Universidad de los AndesBogotá, Colombia.
² Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience, INECO Foundation, Favaloro UniversityBuenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma del CaribeBarranquilla, Colombia; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo IbáñezSantiago de Chile, Chile; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its DisordersSydney, NSW, Australia.

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Keywords: Latin America; barriers; dementia; diagnosis; priority.

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