This 75-minute webinar featured an array of presentations and topics for discussion, including an overview of the SARS-CoV2 vaccine development process and an update on the various COVID-19 vaccines in development from Dr Shalini Desai of the World Health Organization (WHO). Dr Desai also spoke about the COVAX Facility and how it is assisting...
This report provides the first analysis of dementia in humanitarian settings. The report analyses existing tools and guidelines which mandate inclusive support for people at risk, concluding that better implementation of such tools is sorely needed for people with dementia in humanitarian settings. One in every 70 people around the world is impacted by crisis...
‘I can live well with dementia’ is a Global Dementia Charter developed by ADI and international healthcare company Bupa. The Charter outlines the rights that people living with dementia around the world should be able to expect to allow them to live well., as well as calls for governments worldwide to develop national dementia plans...
What is this page for? In response to the COVID-19 crisis ADI will be continually updating these web pages with advice, resources, case studies, tools and updates to help our network in their own responses. For specific information relating to individual countries, please visit the websites of our members across 100 countries. Many of our members...
What is this page for? In response to the COVID-19 crisis ADI will be continually updating these web pages with advice, resources, case studies, tools and updates to help our network in their own responses. For specific information relating to individual countries, please visit the websites of our members across 100 countries. Many of our members...
What is this page for? In response to the COVID-19 crisis ADI will be continually updating these web pages with advice, resources, case studies, tools and updates to help our network in their own responses. For specific information relating to individual countries, please visit the websites of our members across 100 countries. Many of our members...
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, ADI has sought to highlight some important issues affecting people living with dementia. In response, ADI has published two papers around the difficult decisions people with dementia, their families and carers are having to make about hospital admission and triage during COVID-19. This second paper, intended to compliment ‘COVID-19...
Date: 09th April 2020Author(s): Alzheimer's Disease International , Gill Livingston , Wendy WeidnerResource type: PublicationDownloadspdfCOVID-19 and dementia: Difficult decisions about hospital admission and triage (Full version, English)pdfCOVID-19 and dementia: Difficult decisions about hospital admission and triage (Full version, Spanish)pdfCOVID-19 and dementia: Difficult decisions about hospital admission and triage (Full version, French)In response to the...
Our infographic showing 10 warning signs of dementia: Memory lossDifficulty performing familiar tasksProblems with languageDisorientation to time and placePoor or decreased judgementProblems keeping track of thingsMisplacing thingsChanges in mood and behaviourTrouble with images and spatial relationshipsWithdrawal from work or social activities Taken from https://www.alzint.org Downloads Warning signs infographic (Full version, English)
he webinar examines findings of the recent report by the Lancet Commission on Dementia prevention, intervention, and care and considered the wider context of discourse surrounding dementia risk reduction, NCDs, air pollution, as well as the lived experience of dementia during the pandemic. A strong theme coming through the webinar is the implications of the...
