On 18 September 2020, the World Dementia Council (WDC) published the first paper to emerge from its dementia-friendly initiatives (DFIs) project. The project came out of a 2018 WDC summit in London, which brought together dementia experts from across the globe, to look at some of the challenges faced in reaching the 2025 goals on dementia, set by the G8 in 2013.
The WDC launched a year-long consultation in 2019, to gather international evidence on the design and delivery of DFIs and an evidence framework was designed to compare and synthesise a global evidence base, attempting to consider the variety of initiatives designed to have impact; the breadth of evidence likely to be submitted from countries around the world; and the range of voices that would contribute. A literature review, field survey and a number of consultation events informed the project.
A report was planned for summer 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19 and is now being published as a series of papers over the autumn.
You can find this first paper, here: https://worlddementiacouncil.org/DFIs.
