When Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with U.S. lawmakers this month, they covered a range of urgent topics, from geopolitics to generative AI. Yet the agenda missed one of the most important opportunities to extend Japanese and American leadership on the global stage: aging.
While other issues may capture headlines, Japan-United States collaboration on aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain health actually represents a larger, long-term platform for the future of this vital partnership and its global influence.
By focusing here, Japan and the U.S. can tap our unique national strengths to help every country bolster their health systems, economies, and workforces for the demographic dynamics that will shape our world through midcentury and beyond.
About the author
George Vradenburg
George Vradenburg is the founding chair of the board of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative, a global public-private-patient foundation focused on linking and scaling Alzheimer’s disease and brain health research and delivery systems around the world. DAC was launched in Davos, Switzerland, in 2021 by the Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease, or CEOi, and the World Economic Forum.
