Is the countryside still inside? Exploring long‐standing effects of childhood rurality for dementia risk in the PROAME Study.

Background: Dementia prevalence in Latin America is higher in rural than urban areas. This discrepancy may be explained by inequities over the lifespan in access to health and educational services. However, there is no evidence of potential adverse long‐standing effects of living in rural areas during childhood in current urban adults.

Strategies and challenges for recruiting and retaining illiterate older adults with low socioeconomical levels in a non‐pharmacological trial: the PROAME study.

Background: Recruiting and retaining older adults for clinical trials is challenging, especially in low‐resource settings. Such challenges led to a systematic exclusion of such participants from clinical trials, compromising the generalizability of the results obtained in high income countries.

Objective: Here we describe the strategies we used in the PROAME study for recruiting and retaining illiterate older adults from low socioeconomical levels in a non‐pharmacological trial.

Episodic memory improvement in illiterate adults attending late-life education irrespective of low socioeconomic status: insights from the PROAME study.

Unlabelled: The majority of people with dementia live in low or middle-income countries (LMICs) where resources that play a crucial role in brain health, such as quality education, are still not widely available. In Brazil, illiteracy remains a prevalent issue, especially in communities with lower socioeconomic status (SES). The PROAME study set out to explore basic education in illiterate adults as a means to improve cognitive reserve.