Table 7.

Excerpts From Theme 6: Limited Understating of Dementia Leading to a Delay in Care in the Latino Population

Sub-theme	Representative quote
6A) Waiting until a person is unrecognizable before seeking care	Provider_WA_8: But us Latinos, they would wait until it's-- basically, they don't recognize you or something like the way advance of the disease. They don't look for help before. It has to be very in advance I'll say. At the beginning, the stages, no, it's not going to happen
6B) Relating dementia symptoms to stress or memory loss	Caregiver_CA_6: We didn't even understand what was the main separation with his memory like in regards to the deceased. Because we didn't know that he was going through this illness, Alzheimer's. We thought it was just the stress or some problems with the memory. We were hoping that he would get better any sooner, but he started getting worse
6C) Attributing dementia to normal aging rather than a disease	Caregiver_CA_13: …[We] need to “normalize” the disease in the Latino community because currently, there is resistance in accepting the disease. Most Latinos think say that “it's normal” or that he acts like that “because he's old”
6D) Attributing dementia to God's will	Caregiver_WA_32067: Well, from a humanistic point, I kind of think it's a God-ly thing, for some reason. I don't know. I wouldn't say her ancestors or somebody were like this. I don't think it's hereditary
6D) Attributing dementia to God's will	Provider_WA_8: Yeah, many of them believe that they have their faith and that's enough and the counsel is for crazy people or to say like people with mental illness. So they refuse to believe they need that, that God is the answer to their problems and they're fine