Employers and Economics

The American Society on Aging unites, empowers and champions everyone striving to improve aging.

• Brain Health Academy™: The American Society on Aging has partnered with UsAgainstAlzheimer’s to provide free, CE-eligible courses to equip healthcare and wellness providers with the knowledge and resources to help people reduce the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s.
  

The Business Collaborative for Brain Health is a collaborative of private sector partners developing innovative solutions to optimize cognitive health throughout the lifespan, particularly into our older years.

• Is Your Workplace Brain Healthy?: The Business Collaborative for Brain Health partnered with HERO and Mercer to develop a Brain Health Best Practice Score, an educational tool to help organizations assess their health and well-being initiatives and practices for promoting brain health.
  
• The Benefits of Brain Health to Our Economies: Sarah Lenz Lock, a collaborative member, sheds light on the broader societal impact of a more cognitively resilient older population, particularly the positive influence a mentally sharp workforce can exert on the larger economy.
  
• Building Brain Capital: Dr. Harris Eyre, a physician, neuroscientist, and Collaborative Advisor, posits that a new narrative centered on “Brain Capital” has the potential to fuel economic and societal recovery and resilience.
  
• Eating for the Future: Women's Midlife Diets Shape Later-Life Brain Health and Memory: This 30-year follow-up investigation analyzed data from over 5,100 women participating in the NYU Women's Health Study, which investigates the influence of lifestyle and other factors on the development of various chronic conditions.
  
• Unlocking Workplace Brain Health to Fuel Prosperity and Healthy Longevity: Today’s advances in neuroscience hold promise for workers and their employers to develop more effective strategies to improve brain health and build the cognitive skills necessary to meet present and future human capital challenges.
  

The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) is a national non-profit dedicated to identifying and sharing best practices in the field of workplace health and well-being (HWB) to improve the health and well-being of workers, their spouses, dependents and retirees.

• 2024 HERO Winter Think Tank Recommended Readings & Videos: Submitted by HERO Think Tank faculty for “Brain Health and the Aging Workforce.”
  

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) works with collaborators around the world to develop timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence that illuminates the state of health everywhere.

• Brain Health Atlas: The Brain Health Atlas is an interactive, public-facing hub that compiles both pre-existing and novel evidence on the health and economic burdens of brain disorders. The scope of this evidence spans all ages, all countries, and encompasses neurological, mental, and cerebrovascular conditions.
  

The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life. With a focus on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health, we bring together the best ideas and innovative resourcing to develop blueprints for tackling some of our most critical global issues through the lens of what’s pressing now and what’s coming next.

• The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care: The Alliance aims to transform and improve the complex health- and long-term-care systems that people at risk for and living with dementia must navigate.
  
• Better Brain Health through Equity: This report presents actionable recommendations to build health equity by reducing disparities in dementia prevention, detection, diagnosis, and care.
  
• Building Workforce Capacity to Improve Detection and Diagnosis of Dementia: This report examines issues and opportunities to build a dementia-capable workforce, focusing on promoting timely detection of cognitive impairment in primary care settings.
  
• Scaling Comprehensive Dementia-Care Models: These models present actionable recommendations to advance comprehensive dementia care and implement effective payment policies.
  
• Guiding the Care Journey: Building Dementia Workforce and System Capacity through Care Navigation: This guide presents a framework for health systems, community-based organizations, and Medicare payers to implement care-navigation services in dementia care.