Canada must step up to meet the challenge of dementia

Canada needs a national dementia co-ordinating body to guide policy implementation, set benchmarks for success, and manage data to evaluate progress.

Canada was the last G7 country to release a national dementia strategy and has no new funding to improve the country’s fragmented approach to care, writes Dr. Saskia Sivananthan.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY SASKIA SIVANANTHAN

August 11, 2025

Last March in Geneva, an influential moment unfolded at the United Nations. Canadian advocacy groups appeared before a UN committee to testify on how well this country was meeting its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. One of the mos...

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