Researchers No Longer See Dementia As 'Untreatable', Huge Report Says

“The feeling of optimism has never been so strong.”

Not only do we not have a cure for dementia yet, but we don’t even have a single test that can diagnose it outright.

So, why does 2026’s huge World Alzheimer Report, co-authored by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and health writer Paul Gallagher, suggest that “Alzheimer’s disease is no longer universally described as untreatable” by researchers?

This “mood” among scientists, the paper added, is “infectious”.

Indeed, Professor Colin Masters, a neuroscientist whose research contributed to the amyloid hypothesis of dementia, told ADI: “Alzheimer’s disease is going gangbusters at the moment.

“The feeling of optimism has never been so strong. We’ve moved from a great nihilistic, pessimistic era five years ago towards an era of extreme optimism”.

Why do some researchers no longer see dementia as untreatable?

There’s not one single breakthrough that’s left the scientific community so encouraged. We still don’t have a cure for dementia, for instance.

But finding one “feels like a more palpable prospect than ever before”, the report reads, because of multiple changes in research, medication, and approaches.

1) New drugs have been shown to slow dementia

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