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Mind the Gap: Investing in Dementia as an Opportunity to Extend Healthspan

We are living through an age of remarkable longevity. Globally, the number of people aged 60 and over is projected to double in...
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Mike Brown, Diane Ty, and Christian Jung, PhD
Featured 
Report

Mind the Gap: Investing in Dementia as an Opportunity to Extend Healthspan

We are living through an age of remarkable longevity. Globally, the number of people aged 60 and over is projected to double in...
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Mike Brown, Diane Ty, and Christian Jung, PhD

In our signature program, the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, we bring together a multi-sector coalition of leaders to uncover the latest breakthroughs in brain health and we work to increase timely detection, improve access to treatment, coordinated care, and address health equity for people at risk for or living with dementia and their caregivers. Through expert workgroups, convenings, collaborative initiatives, and thought leadership, the Alliance amplifies and promotes the adoption of proven polices, solutions, and promising innovations in dementia care.

OVERVIEW OF GOALS

The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care


The Alliance Aims to Accomplish These Goals:
 

  • Unite a cross-sector coalition: Convene and engage diverse stakeholders, including health systems, industry, research, advocacy groups, community-based organizations, philanthropy, government, and, most importantly, individuals with lived experiences, to foster collaboration and alignment in dementia care efforts.

  • Identify and scale best practices in dementia care delivery: Ensure individuals receive high-quality, evidence-based care by identifying, amplifying, and scaling best practices in early and accurate diagnosis, treatment, and comprehensive care through value-based payment models.

  • Advance policy and regulatory solutions: Work with federal, state, and local advisory boards, agency leaders, and elected officials to overcome long-standing care and financing barriers and advance scalable solutions.

  • Strengthen a dementia-capable workforce and community: Develop and promote policies that build a dementia-capable workforce across the care continuum, equip employers to support employees affected by or caring for someone with dementia, and expand community-based resources with better prevention, detection, and care resources.

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Invest in brainspan to reduce the lifespan-healthspan gap

Milken Institute calls for greater investment in dementia research and development to help boost global healthspan and longevity. 

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5 Science-Backed Ways to Increase Brainspan

Cognitive health doesn’t have to decline with age. Here’s how to stay sharp.

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Dementia prevention starts in the workplace

As benefit leaders continue to explore innovative ways to invest in employee wellness, it might be high time they turn their attention toward brain health.

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Employers could raise retention rates, productivity by investing in caregiving support, report says

More and more adults are juggling full-time work and caregiving responsibilities — and it’s costing employers about $33 billion a year in lost productivity and employee retention, said Diane Ty, managing director of Milken Institute Future of Aging and co-author of the institute's report on the issue.

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It’s Time to Prevent Dementia, Alzheimer’s, Stroke, and Depression

“What can I do to take good care of my brain so I do not come down with dementia like my mother?” I will never forget the first time Helena asked me that question while sea ted at her mother’s bedside.

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Cocreation Is Key to Solving the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Crisis

Nearly 7 million seniors in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease, and 11 million more people provide unpaid care for a family member or friend with dementia.

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Worried About Cognitive Decline? You Can Do Something About It

Eat well. Move more. Stress less. Connect with others. These lifestyle factors, when applied intensively, may slow the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy.

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David B. Reuben - Stories from the Field

Much of my work over the past decade has focused on creating, implementing, and testing new models of care for people living with dementia and their caregivers.

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The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care is supported by steering committee members: AARP, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Bank of America, Biogen, BrightFocus Foundation, CaringKind, Edward Jones, Eisai, Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the John A. Hartford Foundation, Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk, the Scan Foundation, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Gary and Mary West Foundation.

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