DEMENTIA

A public health priority

What are the symptoms?
Difficulties Confusion in Difficulty with Memory Changes in
with everyday familiar words and loss mood and
tasks environments numbers behaviour

Who is affected? What is the

Nearly 10 million new
cause?
cases every year Conditions that affect the
brain, such as Alzheimer's
One every disease, stroke or head injury
3 seconds 2050

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What does it cost?
47 million people 2030 million US$818 billion:
worldwide in
2015 estimated costs to
2015
75 2015 society in 2015
Set to almost million
triple by 2050 47 US$2 trillion
million
2030

Majority of people who will Families and friends

develop dementia will be in provide most of the care
low- and middle-income
Carers experience physical,
countries emotional and financial stress
The Global Action Plan on the Public Health
Response to Dementia 2017 - 2025

Vision
A world in which dementia is prevented and people with dementia and their carers live well and receive
the care and support they need to fulfil their potential with dignity, respect, autonomy and equality.

Goal
To improve the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families, while decreasing the
impact of dementia on them as well as on communities and countries.

The seven action areas and targets

Dementia as a public Dementia awareness Dementia Dementia
health priority and friendliness risk reduction diagnosis,
treatment & care

1 2 3 4

By 2025, 75% of By 2025, 100% of Risk reduction targets By 2025, 50%

countries have national countries have a identified in the of people with
policies, strategies, functioning public- Global action plan for dementia are
plans or frameworks for awareness campaign on prevention and control diagnosed, in
dementia dementia of noncommunicable at least 50% of
diseases 2013-2020 are countries
By 2025, 50% of
achieved
countries have at least
one dementia-friendly
initiative

Support for Information systems Dementia research

dementia carers for dementia and innovation

5 6 7

By 2025, 75% of countries By 2025, 50% of Global research output

provide support and countries routinely on dementia doubles
training for carers and collect data on core between 2017 and 2025
families dementia indicators