Abstract
The number of people living with dementia worldwide is expected to triple by 2050 (from 47 million in 2015 to 132 million). Dementia is gaining high prominence as a global public health priority, as illustrated by the convening of the First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia in 2015. The personal, familial, social and economic consequences of dementia are prompting a range of actions across regions and cultures.
Sally Greengross, Co-President of the ILC Global Alliance, will give detail of the Global Parliamentary Action Group on Alzheimer’s and Dementia, a key outcome initiative of the 2014 G7 Dementia Summit, and describe the progress toward achieving higher levels of global attention and collaboration. She will present a short summary of the issues facing UK legislators and describe the UK’s first Dementia Research Institute, the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 and the outcomes of the National Dementia Strategy. She will also relate how the 2010 Equality Act and the 2014 Care Act conferred new rights on both patients and carers. Additionally, she will elucidate how the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of all health and social services in England, has shone a light into poor standards.
Following this Symposium keynote, there will be an overview of current policy responses and practices from the member countries of the Global Alliance of ILCs with a view to strengthen supranational and multi sectorial cooperation.