— Biennial report highlights Association’s wide-ranging work in engaging diverse communities in reducing health disparities, achieving health equity —

CHICAGO, July 31, 2025 — The Alzheimer’s Association today released its 2025 Health Equity Impact Report: Fostering Collaboration and Understanding, highlighting the Association’s ongoing work to ensure equitable brain health and dementia care for all communities. The biennial report documents wide-ranging efforts to promote early diagnosis, risk reduction and quality care to all affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementia.

Reflected throughout the report is the work the Alzheimer’s Association is doing with more than 30 national and 1,100 community organizations to deliver education, support and resources tailored to disproportionately affected and underresourced populations. Over the past year, the Association has increased its reach to disproportionately affected and underresourced groups by expanding these partnerships by more than 25%, according to the report.

“The Alzheimer’s Association is committed to serving all communities in ensuring families have access to early diagnosis, risk reduction and quality care. This report reflects this important work,” said Joanne Pike, DrPH, president and chief executive officer, Alzheimer’s Association. “We cannot achieve this alone. To succeed in our mission, and to break down barriers, we need help from trusted partners in communities across the country.”

Efforts highlighted in the new report include:

Providing and Enhancing Care and Support

• Healthy Brain Initiative: Road Map for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples. In collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Association released the second edition of the Healthy Brain Initiative: Road Map for American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples to equip public health professionals working with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities with strategies to improve brain health, address dementia and better meet the needs of caregivers.
• Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI). Backed by a five-year, $25 million grant — the largest in Association history — from the Administration on Community Living (ACL), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, CDRI is pioneering innovation in respite care models and enhancing respite services for people living with dementia and their caregivers, particularly in communities at higher risk for Alzheimer’s and other dementia.
• Health Equity Coalitions. To help improve Alzheimer’s diagnosis, care, and education in targeted communities, the Association enlisted the help of 10 grassroots ALZ Health Equity Coalitions, which are working to improve the state of diagnosis and care for underserved and disproportionately affected communities facing Alzheimer’s and other dementia.

Accelerating Research

• The Association is funding over 1,150 projects in 57 countries, totaling $430 million in active and committed funding. Several of these projects address health challenges experienced by all communities through social determinants of health around Alzheimer's and other dementia.

• AAIC® Advancements: Exploring Equity in Diagnosis brought together leading experts in biomarkers, epidemiology, health equity, community participatory research practices, clinical care and more to advance discussion of the science and collaboration around identifying, understanding and addressing equity in Alzheimer’s and other dementia diagnosis.
• The Supporting Research in Health Disparities, Policy and Ethics in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Research program was created to provide funding for research with the potential to increase knowledge about Alzheimer’s and all other dementia in populations that have historically not participated in research studies.

Advancing Public Policy

• In 2024, the Association and the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM) — a separately incorporated advocacy affiliate of the Association — advanced bipartisan legislation aimed at keeping the fight against Alzheimer's a national priority. Three Association/AIM priority bills encompassing policies that advance healthy equity passed unanimously and were signed into law: the NAPA Reauthorization Act, the Alzheimer’s Accountability and Investment Act, and the BOLD Reauthorization Act.

Increasing Concern and Awareness

• The Some Things Come with Age campaign, launched in collaboration with the Ad Council, worked to increase early detection of Alzheimer’s and other dementias within the Hispanic community by raising awareness of the early signs and symptoms. Bilingual public service announcements ran on television, radio, out-of-home and digital sites across the country.
• How Sweet the Sound. The Association and Ad Council also partnered to engage the Black/African American community during the national soulful music competition How Sweet the Sound, sharing disease-related information and resources to participants, audience members and viewers.

Growing Revenue Support of the Mission

• In 2024, the Alzheimer’s Association launched Generation Hope, its first-ever brand fundraising advertising campaign aimed at demonstrating the value of investing in the Association's mission. The inclusive, ongoing national initiative features online videos with bilingual content, including an extension with Association Celebrity Champions Samuel L. Jackson, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Diedrich Bader. Generation Hope empowers people to continue to advance progress in the movement to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.

About the Alzheimer's Association

The Alzheimer’s Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia®. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.