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Review
. 2019 Dec;9(2):020310.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.020310.

Globalising strategies to meet global challenges: the case of ageing and dementia

Mario A Parra  1   2   3 , Stephen Butler  1   4 , William J McGeown  1   4 , Louise A Brown Nicholls  1   4 , David J Robertson  1   4
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Globalising strategies to meet global challenges: the case of ageing and dementia

Mario A Parra et al. J Glob Health. 2019 Dec.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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The Latin America and Caribbean Consortium on Dementia (LAC-CD) and the Global Dementia Prevention Program (GloDePP Consortium) are two emerging initiatives which hold potential to bridge LMIC and HIC across the globe, to globalise dementia strategies.
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Photo: New initiatives are emerging which bring together countries from the Global South and Global North to identify shared barriers and to harmonise strategies that can help fight the dementia challenge globally (from the collection of Mario A Parra, used with permission).
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