A systematic review of costs and benefits of population screening for dementia

BackgroundDespite over a decade of efforts to improve timely detection, as many as 50% of people with dementia do not receive a formal diagnosis or receive it too late to be clinically useful. Population screening (routine testing of a defined population even when no symptoms or signs have been reported) might provide part of the solution. However, the costs and benefits of this large-scale intervention are unclear. We undertook a systematic …