Lessons Learned from a Global, Multisite Early Detection Program in Primary Care Implementation Program
Tim MacLeod · 2025
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Tim MacLeod reports lessons from a global program that planted early dementia screening in everyday clinics. The Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative program, launched in 2021, worked with seven health systems in six countries, from Brazil and Jamaica to Japan and Scotland. Its aim was to catch cognitive decline sooner by adding digital cognitive tests to primary care, with a blood test for amyloid offered when the screen raised concern.
Site leaders met monthly for two years to swap problems and fixes. Their shared hurdles spanned payment and purchasing rules, shortages of brain-health expertise and lab capacity, and the daily friction of training, blood draws, and shipping samples. Clinicians also needed support to use the tests and to explain blood results to patients. MacLeod stresses that teaching sites how the blood tests work, and where they fit in routine care, decided whether the tools could spread.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tim MacLeod |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |