Poor brain health costs the world economy $5 trillion a year. The world is waking up to the crisis

Brain health disorders including Alzheimer’s, dementia, depression, and stroke-related cognitive decline currently cost the global economy $5 trillion a year. By 2030, that figure is projected to reach $16 trillion. And yet, until recently, this crisis barely registered in the rooms where economic policy gets made.

That changed at Davos this January. On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, conversations connected brain health not just to healthcare budgets but also to workforce...