Preparedness of the Brazilian health-care system to provide access to a disease-modifying Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Soeren MattkeOtelo Corrêa Dos Santos FilhoMark HansonElaine Fernandes MateusJoão Paulo Reis NetoLeonardo Cruz de SouzaRodrigo Rizek SchultzRoney Pereira PintoPublished in: Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association (2022)
Our findings suggest that Brazil is ill-prepared to provide timely access to an Alzheimer's treatment with predicted wait times of about two years, largely because of a limited number of dementia specialists.