Fig. 1

An illustration of how patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias seek health care from different care providers indicating where they start from (visit 1) and where they end. Legend: Colors correspond to the point of care where patients started seeking health care. The red arrows indicate the pathway from hospital point of care. The black dotted arrows indicate the pathway from clinics; the blue dotted arrows indicate the pathway from the traditional healers’ shrines and the green arrows indicate the pathway from places of worship. Visit refers to health seeking care encounter. Numbers on the arrows indicate number of patients from one point of care to the next. Percentages in boxes indicate respondents who visited that particular point of care on that visit. Note that total number of patients/caregivers from one visit to another go on reducing as some used few health care encounters than others