Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI)
News, blogs and stories from across the field of dementia, the work of Alzheimer’s Disease International and our members.
To date only 37 countries out of 194 that signed up to implement the Global Dementia Action Plan have created and funded National Dementia plans. Our new campaign aims to galvanise and encourage more governments to develop national dementia plans following their 2017 commitment to implementing all seven-action area of the WHO global action plan on dementia.
This is the press release for the World Alzheimer Report 2021 'Journey through the diagnosis of dementia'
Earlier this year, Alzheimer’s Disease Association of the Philippines partnered with Memory Lane Games to build a culturally relevant and customised cognitive game app for carers and people living with dementia in the Philippines.
The 'Building an inclusivity society' campaign from ADI member France Alzheimer aims to raise awareness amongst civil society and to dismantle stigmatic attitudes and ideas around dementia.
In this blog, the co-leaders of the Brain Health Diplomacy Working Group from The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), write about the necessity for brain health diplomacy in advancing better brain health.
Raymond Xiong writes about his inspiration behind creating and sharing MECA exercises, which incorporate music, gymnastics and cognitive activity, to improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia.
The annual Alzheimer University (AU) assists emerging Alzheimer and dementia associations.
World Alzheimers Month 2021 has just ended and marks the most successful awareness raising campaign to date in its decade long history.
World Alzheimer’s Month is just around the corner and the STRiDE (Strengthening responses to dementia in developing countries) project teams have been busy planning activities to raise awareness and keep dementia on the policy agenda. The STRiDE project is led by the London School of Economics and Political Science, in…
People living with dementia and carers from all over the world have shared their experience of the journey to diagnosis for this year's World Alzheimer's Month campaign.