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The power of knowledge about dementia in Latin America across health professionals working on aging.
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article
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Ibanez, Agustin; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Hesse, Eugenia; Dottori, Martin; Tomio, Ailin; Slachevsky, Andrea; Serrano, Cecilia M; Gonzalez-Billaut, Christian; Custodio, Nilton; Miranda, Claudia; Bustin, Julian; Cetckovitch, Marcelo; Torrente, Fernando; Olavarria, Loreto; Leon, Tomas; Beber, Barbara Costa; Bruki, Sonia; Suemoto, Claudia K; Nitrini, Ricardo; Miller, Bruce L; Yokoyama, Jennifer S
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Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 12(1)
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IntroductionExpert knowledge is critical to fight dementia in inequitable regions like Latin American and Caribbean countries (LACs). However, the opinions of aging experts on public policies' accessibility and transmission, stigma, diagnostic manuals, data-sharing platforms, and use of behavioral insights (BIs) are not well known.MethodsWe investigated opinions among health professionals working on aging in LACs (N = 3365) with regression models including expertise-related information (public policies, BI), individual differences (work, age, academic degree), and location.ResultsExperts specified low public policy knowledge (X2 = 41.27, P