1: What is stigma?

2: Attitudes to dementia survey results .
-Background.
-Comparative analysis: 2019 vs. 2024.
-Anticipated discrimination among people with dementia and carers in 2024.
-Impacts of stigma on life satisfaction, loneliness, and quality of life.
-Perceptions of change since 2019.
-Reducing dementia-related stigma.
-Methodology

3: Expert essays
-The impact of COVID-19 on people with dementia: discriminated, neglected, isolated
-Challenging dementia stigma in popular culture: why we need media guidelines
-Women’s experience of stigma and bias around Alzheimer’s and related dementias: access to information, diagnosis, treatment, care, and research
-“We need to row in the same direction”: a dialogue on dementia science, policy,and awareness
-Valuable initiatives to understand and address stigma in rarer forms of dementia
-Dementia risk reduction and stigma: a complex relationship with hopeful potential
-Stigma and awareness: some critical questions

4. Case studies of stigma
-Speaking up for change: the long road to a Lewy body diagnosis in the U.S.’s veteran healthcare system
-“You don’t look like you have dementia!”: what I wish people knew about living with primary progressive aphasia
-Alzheimer’s stigma: a gamut of social group attitudes affecting healthcare access, diagnosis confidence, and caregivers’ efforts
-Understanding and reducing dementia stigma in Australia: who holds it and how to mitigate it?
-Dementia attitudes in British adolescents
-The Big Forget: perceptions of dementia across Africa
-Canadian Indigenous experiences of and attitudes to dementia
-Stigma in times of crisis: how war compounds the struggle for people living with dementia in Ukraine
-Palliative care access for people living with dementia in the Middle East: navigating cultural barriers

5. Case studies in addressing stigma
-Becoming an advocate and a force for change as an LGBTQ+ person with early-onset dementia
-Changing terminology to change attitudes: the Japanese experience
-Stigma in dementia: lessons from HIV care in Africa
-Development and feasibility testing of the Changing Attitudes and Reducing Discrimination in Dementia (CARD) intervention with community healthcare workers in Brazil
-Old before our years: a conversation between two sons of younger-onset dementia from across the pond
-New paradigms in dementia: promoting brain health and healthy ageing from childhood
-Awareness in action: dementia education for African immigrants in the United States
-The importance of data in addressing dementia attitudes: lower- and middle-income countries’ perspective

Conclusion