Researchers found diagnosis rates varied depending on location — with parts of the Great Plains and Southwest seeing fewer dementia cases than predicted.
Medical instruments are pictured at the Actors Fund's Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic on March 23, 2011, in New York City. Researchers found that the odds of getting a formal dementia diagnosis in the U.S. differed based on location.
The reasons behind the disparity aren't clear, but researchers speculate that stigma as well as access to primary care or behavioral neurological specialists may impact the odds of getting a formal diagnosis."We tell anecdotes about how hard it is to get a diagnosis and maybe it is harder in some places. It's not just your imagination.
What they discovered was that the two maps were vastly different, with parts of the Great Plains and Southwest seeing less diagnosis than expected. For example, a person in Wichita Falls, Texas, may have twice the likelihood of getting a diagnosis than a person living in Minot, N.D."Even within a group of people who are all 80, depending on where you live, you might be twice as likely to actually get a diagnosis," Bynum said.
Erin Abner, an epidemiologist at the University of Kentucky who was not involved in the study, said the results were not surprising and that there are many barriers to diagnosis.
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