The number of older migrants with cognitive impairment and dementia living in Italy and attending national healthcare services is rapidly increasing. There is a need to develop diversity-sensitive policies and practices to include migrants and people with different cultural values in the public health response to dementia.

Based on the gaps and barriers identified by the ImmiDem study (GR-2016-02364975), the present project aims to:

i) Describe the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of migrants with cognitive disorders living in Italy, their health outcomes, and their access to healthcare resources; ii) develop and disseminate screening and assessment tools allowing the cross-cultural cognitive examination of individuals with a migration background; iii) raise awareness about dementia among culturally diverse people and train healthcare professionals in how to provide culturally competent care and support for migrants with cognitive disorders.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Migrant (person who was not born in Italy) attending an Italian CCDD;
• Presence of a cognitive impairment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• A person without any cognitive impairment.

All migrants consecutively referred to CCDDs due to cognitive disturbances in one year will be considered.

The following definition of migrants will be consistently adopted in the project: any person living in Italy but born abroad, regardless of the legal status, the reason for migration, and the length of the stay (source: International Organization for Migration).

A workshop will be organized at the end of the project for disseminating the study results to major stakeholders (e.g., healthcare professionals, representatives of migrant communities, local authorities).

After 36 months by the beginning of the study