Thought Leaders Want Alzheimer's at the Top of G20 Agenda

Leading experts on Alzheimer's and dementia have requested that the world's richest nations make Alzheimer's disease the top priority for the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit Agenda with their release of a Consensus Statement and Research Framework , reports Forbes . The framework cites the urgent need to adopt aging and dementia as a theme of the summit and submits recommendations on what action should be taken. UsAgainstAlzheimer's Chairman George Vradenburg is spearheading the global community effort to make dementia and Alzheimer's a priority, and he warns the diseases' immense costs will keep rising. The consensus statement calls for a greater focus on Alzheimer's and support for progress toward the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goals. Other statement items include international collaboration on developing biomarkers and diagnostics, global connections between regional clinical trial systems, more regulatory coordination to accelerate the provision of new medications to those in need, greater backing for genome-wide association studies, and higher funding for drug development and evidenced-based care practices. UsAgainstAlzheimer's says the experts also are asking G20 leaders, especially Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to lead development of a global fund that would be committed to research, diagnostics, and distribution of innovative medicines "to ensure that we stop the disease by 2025."