Summary of the G8 Dementia Summit: Global Action Against Dementia (Department of Health)

Summary

This Department of Health web-based document presents a synopsis of activity at the G8 Dementia Summit held in London on December 11^th 2013. It summarises agreed actions, video excerpts from some of the speeches at the event, and the work within topic-specific discussion panels. The main section headings comprise:

1. A growing global health problem.
2. Ministers agreed action.
3. Dementia – the challenge the world faces.
4. First-hand experience.
5. Discussion 1: Improving life and care for people affected by dementia, and their carers.
6. Discussion 2: Preventing and delaying dementia.
7. Discussion 3: Social adaptation to global aging and dementia.
8. Keynote address: David Cameron.
9. Closing remarks.
10. Legacy activities in 2014.

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Reference

G8 dementia summit: global action against dementia – 11 December 2013. London [Online]: Department of Health, April 10^th 2014.