September 21st is World Alzheimer's Day

Welcome to the World Alzheimer's Day™ section of Alzheimer's Disease International's (ADI) website.

World Alzheimer's Day™, 21 September each year, is a day on which Alzheimer associations concentrate their efforts on raising awareness about dementia. There are an estimated 24 million people around the world who currently have dementia.

Each year a theme is selected about which ADI prepares and distributes promotional materials to our member Alzheimer associations, other organisations and individuals around the world. Getting people to campaign collectively on a unifying theme in their country is the most effective way of bringing dementia to the global attention of governments, opinion leaders, medical professionals, people with dementia and their carers.

Voices of Alzheimer's: About Some of the Authors

While the Voices Series is a national and international effort, we like our community to be introduced to some of authors at a personal level.

Sandy McPherson Carrubba and Lois Vidaver are featured in a recent article in the Tonawanda News: TOWN OF TONAWANDA: Two residents publish their experience with Alzheimer's.

The profound generosity of our authors in sharing their stories is well communicated in this article. It highlights how partipation in The Healing Project cuts across all elements of our society and not only benefits the reader but also the author.