Chile
Currently, it is estimated there are about 180,000 people living with dementia in Chile, and this number is projected to triple by 2020. Dementia has increasingly become an important condition for society, health, and social policy. Dementia care falls mostly under the family responsibility, with limited involvement from the health sector which is usually in terms of diagnosis in secondary healthcare. Chile has no National Dementia Strategy. However, civil society and academic efforts over the last few years have helped to create a favourable setting that has paved the way for several milestones in dementia care in the country: a national awareness campaign, enhanced research, increased public funding for day care centres, and the development of a National Dementia Plan with a multisectoral approach to address the complex needs of people with dementia and their caregivers.