Dementia in Latin America: Assessing the present and envisioning the future

Mario A Parra¹, Sandra Baez¹, Ricardo Allegri¹+12

• ¹From the School of Life Sciences (M.A.P.), Psychology, University Heriot-Watt; Human Cognitive Neuroscience (M.A.P.), Psychology, Edinburgh University; Alzheimer's Scotland Dementia Research Centre and Scottish Dementia Clinical Research Network (M.A.P.), Edinburgh; Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (M.A.P., T.B.) and Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (P.C., T.B.), University of Edinburgh, UK; Universidad Autónoma del Caribe (M.A.P., A.I.), Barranquilla, Colombia; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) (S.B., F.M., A.I.); Institute of Translational and Cognitive Neuroscience (INCYT) (S.B., F.M., A.I.), INECO Foundation, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Departamento de Psicología (S.B.) Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Department of Cognitive Neurology and Neuropsychology (R.A.), Instituto de Investigaciones Neurológicas "Raúl Carrea" (FLENI) (R.A.), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universidad de la Costa (CUC) (R.A.), Barranquilla, Colombia; Department of Neurology (R.N.), University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil; Group of Neuroscience (F.L.), University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; Geroscience Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (A.S.); Physiopathology Department, ICBM, and East Neuroscience Department, Faculty of Medicine (A.S.), and Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE) (A.S.), University of Chile; Cognitive Neurology and Dementia, Neurology Department (A.S.), Hospital del Salvador; Neurology Department, Clínica Alemana (A.S.), Santiago, Chile; Research Unit, Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences (N.C., D.L.) and Unit Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Prevention (N.C., D.L.), Lima, Peru; Brain and Mind Centre & School of Psychology (O.P., F.K.), Faculty of Science, University of Sydney; ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (O.P., F.K., F.M., A.I.), Sydney, Australia; Fraunhofer Chile (O.P., P.C.), Santiago; and Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology (D.H., A.I.), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.+1