Dementia in Canada: A National Strategy for Dementia-friendly Communities

Over an Order of Reference authorizing the the course of the study, the committee heard Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, from officials from the Canadian Institutes of Science and Technology (“the committee”) Health Research and the Public Health Agency to examine and report on the issue of of Canada as well as witnesses representing dementia in Canadian society. [...] In Canada Institute of Aging stated that the research component of the NDRPP is the CIHR Dementia Research Strategy, while the Over the course of the committee’s Institute of Aging also funds a number of study, members heard of the considerable other related initiatives.6 He indicated that amount of work on dementia currently the federal government had invested over underway across the country and. [...] FEDERAL INITIATIVES research, or themes: dementia prevention; In September 2014, the Minister of Health improving diagnosis as well as treatment to announced the launch of the National delay the onset or stop the progression of Dementia Research and Prevention dementia, and improving the quality of life for Plan (NDRPP)4 in response to the Canadians afflicted with dementia as well as December 2013. [...] the committee supports the model proposed by the ASC that calls for the creation of a As discussed earlier, the federal government partnership,15 an adaptation of the approach has implemented the “National Dementia taken in the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Research and Prevention Plan,” however, only Control. [...] The ASC proposes that a similar partnership In terms of structure and accountability of be established to develop and implement the dementia strategy, the committee heard a national dementia strategy that is “built about the “U.