Diagnosing dementia and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly in primary health care: A systematic review.

Unlabelled: Dementia is a public health issue making the screening and diagnosing of dementia and its prodromal phases in all health settings imperative.

Objective: using PRISMA, this systematic review aimed to identify how low-, middle-, and high-income countries establish dementia and cognitive dysfunction diagnoses in primary health care.

Methods: studies from the past five years in English, Spanish, and Portuguese were retrieved from Scopus, PubMed, Embase, Lilacs, Scielo, and Web of Science.