Mexico does not have government policies or programmes to support dementia research. With the objective of raising awareness on the need to increase research on dementia, ideally allocating public funds for this, the National Action Plan on Alzheimer’s and other Dementias includes a specific strategy (#6) that states the need to (Gutiérrez-Robledo & Arrieta-Cruz, 2014). The lines of action of Strategy 6 are:

1. Include research on ageing, with emphasis on applied research studies to improve the treatment of dementia, as a priority within the demands of Health Sector Research Funds.
2. Promote inter-institutional links with national and international scientific groups dedicated to research/work on dementia.
3. Increase and strengthen research on dementia through collaborations among different scientific groups in Mexico that integrate the National Thematic Network: Ageing, Health and Social Development (part of the National Council of Science and Technology’s Thematic Networks Fund).
4. Promote a public health research basis on aging by academic and scientific institutions, with particular emphasis on the subject of dementia.
5. Develop new information and data sources for the generation of a permanent epidemiological surveillance system to closely monitor cases of dementia in the country.
6. Establish an inter-institutional collaboration network for the molecular, clinical, and imaging diagnosis of dementias at national level.

References:

Gutiérrez-Robledo, L., & Arrieta-Cruz, I. (2014). Plan de Acción Alzheimer y otras demencias, México 2014. http://diariote.mx/docs/plan_alzheimer_WEB.pdf