The AGAC Issue Focus Team prepared this Spring/Summer Edition of Issue Focus: Dementia and the Human Rights of Older Persons. Valuable insight and input were provided by the contributors to this issue—Carol Ma Hok Ka at the Singapore University of Social Sciences; Debanjan Banerjee at Apollo Multispecialty Hospitals; Theresa Flavin at the Older Persons Advocacy Network and University of New South Wales’ School of Psychology; and Magda Kaczmarska at DanceStream Projects and the Global Brain Health Institute.

We hope that this edition will inspire advocates for the human rights of older persons all around the world and contribute to improving older people’s quality of life, particularly with respect to dementia. We are both awed and elated by the admirable accomplishments of persons living with dementia and those who work with them, as our audience will discover in this issue. We are optimistic about a world in which dementia is no longer a barrier to enjoying and realizing one’s full potential, whether it comes later or sooner.

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