From Plan to Impact 2025 report launch
ADI is delighted to invite our network for the launch of our new From Plan to Impact report, taking place as a side event at the World Health Assembly at 18:00 (CEST) 21st May 2025 (Online and in person). A drinks reception will be held from 17:30 – 18:00 (CEST) for those joining us in-person.
2025 will prove to be a pivotal year, with the World Health Assembly convening for the 78th meeting that will include a crucial decision on whether to extend the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Action Plan on the public health response to dementia, currently due to expire in 2025. ADI has been leading on the call for a vital 6-year extension, to 2031.
Back in 2017 all 194 WHO Member States unanimously adopted the dementia Global Action Plan but a difficult intervening period, including COVID-19, multiple humanitarian and financial crises, means that only around 42 governments have so far been able to commit and develop a national dementia plan. There are currently more than 55 million people living with dementia, a figure set to almost triple by 2050. Dementia will also be the 3rd leading cause of death by 2040. At the pivotal moment, with the approval of the first ever disease modifying treatments, breakthroughs in diagnostics and research showing that up to 45% of dementias could be delayed or even prevented, we must retain this global plan. It is essential in ensuring that dementia remains a global health and care priority.
In this context, ADI is launching an edition of From Plan to Impact reflecting on progress, barriers, solutions and new momentum. We will bring together a leading panel of experts, including from the WHO, key ministries, research, treatment, care and policy; with the voice of lived experience at the heart of the panel.
You can join us in-person in Geneva, Switzerland, at the InterContinental Hotel OR online. Both audiences will have a chance to put your questions to our panel as we endeavour to secure this truly vital global action plan.