Dementias in elderly people in Latin America will quadruple by 2050
Low educational levels and illiteracy are also «serious barriers to the prevention of dementia». Latin America is one of the regions of the world with the greatest genetic vulnerability, with the highest number of families with genetic dementia of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, ataxia, and other rare genetic conditions. «Probably, the combination of the different factors makes Latin Americans particularly vulnerable to dementia and explains the continuous increase in their prevalence, which contrasts with a trend towards a reduction in the prevalence of dementia in developed countries,» said Agustín Ibañez to Infobae
