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Dementia care in Latin America — country profiles from Venezuela and Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Aquiles Salas  and
Raul L. Arizaga
Aquiles Salas
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Raul L. Arizaga
Affiliation:
University of Buenos Aires; Cognitive Neurology Unit, Neuraxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Demographic ageing is proceeding especially rapidly in Latin America. Those aged 65 years and over will increase from 33.3 million (6% of the total population) in 2005 to 56.3 million (8.5%) in 2020 and 110.2 million (14.7%) in 2040. A recent review drew attention to the relatively small number of population-based studies of dementia in Latin American countries (Ferri et al, 2005). Estimates based on the literature suggested 1.8 million people with dementia in 2001 increasing to 4.1 million by 2020 and 9.1 million by 2040. The increase, more than a doubling of the number of people with dementia between 2000 and 2020, was the most marked for any world region. Arguably, health and social finance systems are not well placed to meet the needs of the growing numbers of frail and dependent elderly people.

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Thematic Papers — Dementia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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International Psychiatry , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , October 2006 , pp. 6 - 8
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