Addressing the disparities in dementia risk, early detection and care in Latino populations: Highlights from the second Latinos & Alzheimer's Symposium

Yakeel T Quiroz; Michele Solis; María P Aranda; Alicia I Arbaje; Mirna Arroyo-Miranda; Laura Y Cabrera; Minerva Maria Carrasquillo; Maria M Corrada; Lucia Crivelli; Erica D Diminich; Karen A Dorsman; Mitzi Gonzales; Héctor M González; Ana L Gonzalez-Seda; Lea T Grinberg; Lourdes R Guerrero; Carl V Hill; Ivonne Z Jimenez-Velazquez; Jorge J Llibre Guerra; Francisco Lopera; Gladys Maestre; Luis D Medina; Sid O'Bryant; Claudia Peñaloza; Maria Mora Pinzon; Rosa V Pirela Mavarez; Celina F Pluim; Rema Raman; Katya Rascovsky; Dorene M Rentz; Yarissa Reyes; Monica Rosselli; Malú Gámez Tansey; Clara Vila-Castelar; Megan Zuelsdorff; Maria Carrillo; Claire Sexton

doi:10.1002/alz.12589

Addressing the disparities in dementia risk, early detection and care in Latino populations: Highlights from the second Latinos & Alzheimer's Symposium

Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Sep;18(9):1677-1686. doi: 10.1002/alz.12589. Epub 2022 Feb 24.

Authors

Yakeel T Quiroz¹, Michele Solis², María P Aranda³, Alicia I Arbaje^{4

5}, Mirna Arroyo-Miranda⁶, Laura Y Cabrera⁷, Minerva Maria Carrasquillo⁸, Maria M Corrada⁹, Lucia Crivelli¹⁰, Erica D Diminich¹¹, Karen A Dorsman¹², Mitzi Gonzales¹³, Héctor M González¹⁴, Ana L Gonzalez-Seda¹⁵, Lea T Grinberg¹⁶, Lourdes R Guerrero¹⁷, Carl V Hill¹⁵, Ivonne Z Jimenez-Velazquez¹⁸, Jorge J Llibre Guerra¹⁹, Francisco Lopera²⁰, Gladys Maestre²¹, Luis D Medina²², Sid O'Bryant²³, Claudia Peñaloza²⁴, Maria Mora Pinzon^{25

26}, Rosa V Pirela Mavarez^{27

28}, Celina F Pluim¹, Rema Raman²⁹, Katya Rascovsky³⁰, Dorene M Rentz³¹, Yarissa Reyes¹⁵, Monica Rosselli³², Malú Gámez Tansey³³, Clara Vila-Castelar¹, Megan Zuelsdorff^{34

35}, Maria Carrillo¹⁵, Claire Sexton¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Freelance science writer, Seattle, Washington, USA.
³ USC Roybal Institute on Aging, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁶ University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁷ The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁸ Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
⁹ University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
¹⁰ Fleni, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹¹ Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
¹² University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
¹³ The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
¹⁵ Alzheimer's Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
¹⁶ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
¹⁷ David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹⁸ Medicine Department, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
¹⁹ Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
²⁰ Neuroscience Group of Antioquia, University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia.
²¹ University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA.
²² University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
²³ University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
²⁴ Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
²⁵ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
²⁶ Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
²⁷ University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, Edinburg, Texas, USA.
²⁸ Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer's Disease Resources Center for Minority Aging Research, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas, USA.
²⁹ Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute, University of Southern California, San Diego, California, USA.
³⁰ Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
³¹ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³² Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
³³ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³⁴ University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
³⁵ Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Abstract

The Alzheimer's Association hosted the second Latinos & Alzheimer's Symposium in May 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was held online over 2 days, with virtual presentations, discussions, mentoring sessions, and posters. The Latino population in the United States is projected to have the steepest increase in Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the next 40 years, compared to other ethnic groups. Latinos have increased risk for AD and other dementias, limited access to quality care, and are severely underrepresented in AD and dementia research and clinical trials. The symposium highlighted developments in AD research with Latino populations, including advances in AD biomarkers, and novel cognitive assessments for Spanish-speaking populations, as well as the need to effectively recruit and retain Latinos in clinical research, and how best to deliver health-care services and to aid caregivers of Latinos living with AD.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Alzheimer Disease* / diagnosis
Alzheimer Disease* / epidemiology
Alzheimer Disease* / therapy
Biomarkers
COVID-19*
Hispanic or Latino
Humans
Pandemics
United States

Substances

Biomarkers

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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Grants and funding