Opinion: STAT+: Dementia finally has a business model
The article reflects on the shift in perspective at the 2026 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, noting that dementia now has a recognizable business model. It highlights the role of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative in uniting organizations to accelerate solutions for Alzheimer’s disease. The author, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, contrasts the unchanged physical venue with the evolving economic and scientific landscape.
- ▪The 2026 AAIC emphasized an economic message that dementia is becoming a viable market for treatments and diagnostics.
- ▪The Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative describes its mission as building an innovation ecosystem to accelerate breakthroughs and scale solutions globally.
- ▪Over the nine years since the author’s last visit in 2017, the way the aging brain is approached has transformed, even though the conference venue remains largely unchanged.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:30:00 +0000 |
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STAT PlusOpinionNeurotransmissions Dementia finally has a business model Though treatments and diagnostics are exciting, the big takeaway from AAIC2026 is an economic message Manage alerts for this article Email this article Share this article Molly Ferguson for STAT By Jason KarlawishJuly 28, 2026 Karlawish is a professor of medicine, medical ethics, health policy, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, and executive producer of the “Age of Aging” podcast. In the nine years since my last visit to the Docklands’ Excel conference center for the 2017 annual Alzheimer Association International Conference, or AAIC, little of London’s infrastructure has changed.
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