From Plan to Impact V: WHO Global action plan: The time to act is now

As the host country of the G7 in 2023, Japan held a session on dementia at a meeting As the deadline of the WHO Global action plan in 2025 of health ministers in Nagasaki and included the fast approaches, global efforts towards dementia should importance of dementia measures in the ministerial be enhanced. [...] 12 ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE INTERNATIONAL | FROM PLAN TO IMPACT VII What is a national dementia plan? In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global action plan on the public health response to dementia, aiming to improve the lives of people with Towards a dementia plan: dementia and their carers, whilst mitigating the impact a WHO guide of dementia on communities and countries. [...] The national dementia plan has The development of a national dementia plan positively affected the allocation of funds by would definitely help with more medical care and the Greek government for the creation of new support, as the burden of care is growing with the dementia structures (day care centres, mobile ageing population of Malaysia. [...] and resources, between the Global North and the Multidiversity and tailored dementia plans: the path forward for dementia risk reduction in the majority world National dementia plans and government policies Despite the urgent need to bring diversity and tailored are critical for enhancing the lives of individuals with recommendations, an imbalance in the knowledge dementia and their caregivers. [...] In the majority of the having the lowest, and the projected increase in world, and especially in the Global South, population prevalence is much faster in the Global South than in diversity and disparity1 bring heterogeneous biological the north.