Prevalence of dementia in Latin America, India, and China: a population-based cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies have suggested that the prevalence of dementia is lower in developing than in developed regions. We investigated the prevalence and severity of dementia in sites in low-income and middle-income countries according to two definitions of dementia diagnosis.

Methods

We undertook one-phase cross-sectional surveys of all residents aged 65 years and older (n=14 960) in 11 sites in seven low-income and middle-income countries (China, India, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Mexico, and Peru). Dementia diagnosis was made according to the culturally and educationally sensitive 10/66 dementia diagnostic algorithm, which had been prevalidated in 25 Latin American, Asian, and African centres; and by computerised application of the dementia criterion from the Diagno

SUBMITTER: Llibre Rodriguez JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2854470 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature