Table 3. Reasons for delayed diagnosis of dementia and suggested strategies for improvement in Brazil.

Reason for diagnosis delay	Possible action strategies
Hierarchical referral model bureaucracy	Improve GPs’ capabilities in dementia diagnosis and treatment Increase availability of tests used to exclude potentially treatable causes of dementia in primary health care Select patients who will need evaluation in a tertiary center decrease the waiting time for tertiary center evaluation for more complex patients
Insufficient knowledge about dementia by GP	Improve GPs’ capabilities in dementia diagnosis and treatment Improve dementia education in medical curricula Knowledge transmission by experts
Insufficient knowledge about dementia by lay population	Educational campaigns on dementia, specially differentiating from normal aging Knowledge transmission by experts
Dementia stigma	Educational campaigns on dementia Knowledge transmission by experts

GP: general practitioner.