Dementia prevention strategies for India: From risk reduction to brain health across the life-course

In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2017-2025, in recognition of dementia as a growing public health challenge in an ageing world. 1 Its vision was a world where dementia could be prevented and people with dementia and their carers could live well with dignity, support, autonomy, and equality.Yet, eight years later, most countries still lack a dementia-specific national strategy, policy, plan, or framework.2