Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention
Aims: Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, often goes undiagnosed due to demographic, societal, and healthcare factors. Addressing these challenges is essential to enhance early diagnosis, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the societal and economic bu...
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Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, often goes undiagnosed due to demographic, societal, and healthcare factors. Addressing these challenges is essential to enhance early diagnosis, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the societal and economic burden of dementia. This scoping review explores the prevalence, barriers, impacts, diagnostic tools, and interventions associated with undiagnosed dementia, identifying knowledge gaps and providing recommendations for research, clinical practice, and policy development. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-54b7940cd92c4cbdbb5dc523261ed0242025-08-20T03:15:30ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych Open2056-47242025-06-0111S43S4310.1192/bjo.2025.10145Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and InterventionMohammed Ibrahim0Khalid Mohamed11Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Wales, United Kingdom2Faculty of Medicine, University of Bahri, Khartoum, Sudan Aims: Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of cognitive impairment, often goes undiagnosed due to demographic, societal, and healthcare factors. Addressing these challenges is essential to enhance early diagnosis, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the societal and economic burden of dementia. This scoping review explores the prevalence, barriers, impacts, diagnostic tools, and interventions associated with undiagnosed dementia, identifying knowledge gaps and providing recommendations for research, clinical practice, and policy development.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472425101452/type/journal_article |
| spellingShingle | Mohammed Ibrahim Khalid Mohamed Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention BJPsych Open |
| title | Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention |
| title_full | Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention |
| title_fullStr | Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention |
| title_full_unstemmed | Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention |
| title_short | Undiagnosed Dementia: A Scoping Review of Prevalence, Barriers, Impacts, Diagnostic Tools, and Intervention |
| title_sort | undiagnosed dementia a scoping review of prevalence barriers impacts diagnostic tools and intervention |
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