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Our vision:

A world without Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Our mission:

To alleviate the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and to provide research.

Our values:

Summarized by the acronym CARE, our values are collaboration, accountability, respect and excellence in everything that we do.

By the numbers

The urgency

Canadians living with dementia

Today
500,000+
2031
937,000

Costs of caring for Canadians with dementia

Today
$10.4
billion
2031
$16.6
billion
Of those living with dementia aged 65 +
65%
are women
$359
million
Cost to bring a dementia-treating drug from lab to market
1 in 5
Canadians have experience caring for someone living with a form of dementia
87%
of caregivers wish that more people understood the realities of caring for someone with dementia
1 in 4
Canadians admit they would feel ashamed or embarrassed if that they had dementia
56%
of Canadians are concerned about being affected by Alzheimer’s disease
Of greatest concern is their fear of being a burden to others, and of losing their independence and the inability to recognize family and friends

The progress

More than
$53
million
invested to date in research through the Alzheimer Society Research Program
25,000
Canadians participated in the 2017 Walk for Alzheimer’s to support those affected by dementia