This document provides information about dementia, including its symptoms, signs, early warning signs, prevalence, and future projections. It defines dementia as the progressive deterioration of cognitive functions that affects daily living. The document lists 10 early warning signs of dementia like memory loss, difficulty with tasks, impaired judgment, and personality changes. Statistics presented include that 597,000 Canadians currently live with dementia, projected to rise to 955,900 by 2030. It is estimated that worldwide 50 million people have dementia, with 10 million new cases each year costing $818 billion globally. The future of dementia is presented as an unsustainable growth trajectory if not addressed through prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment.

1. January 2023

2. What Is Dementia?
• Dementia refers to a set of symptoms and signs associated
with a progressive deterioration of cognitive functions
that affects daily activities.
• Dementia mostly affects older adults, but it is not a part of
normal aging.

3. What Is Dementia?
Source: Alzheimer’s Association (USA)

4. 10 Early Warning Signs of Dementia
Sign 1: Memory loss that affects day-to-day abilities
Sign 2: Difficulty performing familiar tasks
Sign 3: Problems with language
Sign 4: Disorientation to time and place
Sign 5: Impaired judgment
Sign 6: Problems with abstract thinking
Sign 7: Misplacing things
Sign 8: Changes in mood and behaviour
Sign 9: Changes in personality
Sign 10: Loss of initiative
…Challenges understanding visual and spatial information
Source: Alzheimer Canada

5. Recent medication
to slow
progression of
symptoms.
Rays of Hope
More research on
prevention and
protection therapies,
addressing multiple
causes of dementia.
Prevention &
early detection
Some risk factors are modifiable, meaning that they can be changed. It has been
estimated that around 40% of dementia cases may be the result of twelve key
modifiable risk factors
KEY
FACTS

8. The Future of Safe Guarding
for Healthy Brains

9. 597,000
Canadians living
with dementia in 2020
Bending the Dementia growth curve :
Source: https://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/About-dementia/What-is-dementia/Dementia-numbers
955,900
Estimated number of Canadians
with dementia by 2030

10. Canada in
Numbers
While there are thousands of worthy causes across Canada, there are only very few
that focus on the elderly and their neurological health. Hope for Dementia hopes to fill
in these gaps that exist within the health care system.
75%
Being ignored
or dismissed
61%
Cases are
women
$10.4 Billion
Annual cost to
Canadians to
care for those
living with
dementia
124,000
Cases
diagnosed in
2020 Over Half
a Million
Canadians
1
0
Source: https://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/About-dementia/What-is-dementia/Dementia-numbers

11. KEY
FACTS
The latest projections from the World Health Organization, reveals that at the
current rate, there will be around 2 billion people 65 years and older by 2050.
Additionally, elderly will exceed the number of children in the near future and this
“Tsunami of aging” will result in significant economical, social and medical
complications.
50 Million
Worldwide people living
with Dementia
10M
New cases every year
US$ 818
Billion
Total Global
Societal Cost
Source: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dementia

12. 1M
2034
Unsustainable growth
trajectory
Billion-dollar question:
How do we bend the curve?
500K
2014

13. Mission:
To safeguard healthy brains.
Hope for Dementia is dedicated
to supporting the prevention,
early diagnosis, and treatment
of dementia and other
cognitive disorders.
Charity Number: 815949763RR0001 Quebec
Registration Number: 1171760599 Ontario
Registration Number: 1955867

14. Our 3 Objectives
Hope for Dementia aspires to be a leading advocate and catalyst for the prevention and reversal of dementia.
Prevention Deceleration Reversal
Raise and disburse funds
for promising research
and clinical trials
Pre-clinical, early
intervention &
cognitive stimulation
activities
Early, regular
screening & risk
reduction

15. Our Activities
• Strategy framework for prevention, deceleration and
reversal of symptoms throughout the health care system
• In March and September 2022 petitions submitted to the
federal and Québec provincial governments, asking for
dementia prevention to be a national health priority
• Healthy Food. Healthy Brain. Program to encourage
healthy eating in vulnerable senior population
• Just Connect. Break social isolation of seniors.
• Intergenerational Learning Program. Youth and seniors
learn from each other.
• Research project on predicting cognitive decline
• Public relations & media outreach
• Fund raising coupled with awareness raising

16. Awards and Recognitions 2019
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January 16, 2023