MEDIA RELEASE COMMUNIQUE AUX MEDIAS MEDIENMITTEILUNG
Five new full members welcomed and 2024 Annual and Financial Report approved during Annual General Meeting in Brussels
6 June 2025, Luxembourg - Alzheimer Europe is pleased to welcome five new full member associations and to present its 2024 Annual and Financial Report. These are just two of the important outcomes from the organisation's Annual General Meeting (AGM), which took place in Brussels. At the AGM, held on 4 June 2025. 29 full members out of 36 were present or represented, ensuring the meeting had quorum. Five of Alzheimer Europe's provisional members were also in attendance, as was the staff and Board, together with various other guest observers.
Alzheimer Europe Chairperson Rosário Zincke dos Reis (Portugal) moderated the meeting, with the agenda including an in-depth review of the 2024-2025 activities and projects of Alzheimer Europe (presented by Honorary Secretary Lorène Gilly from France), as well as the finances of the organisation (presented by Honorary Treasurer Marco Blom from the Netherlands). As has been the case since the beginning of 2022, our core activities in 2024 were funded by an operating grant awarded by the European Commission's Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme, ensuring we can continue providing a voice to people with dementia and their carers, making dementia a European priority, changing perceptions and combatting stigma, raising awareness of brain health and prevention, strengthening the European dementia movement, and supporting dementia research.
AGM delegates reviewed and unanimously adopted Alzheimer Europe's 2024 Annual and Financial Report and the report is now available on our website, as a PDF publication. Printed copies will available at our Annual Conference in Geneva in October. Read our 2024 Annual and Financial Report, here: https://bit.ly/AE2024AnnualReport.
The new terms of office of the European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD) and of the European Dementia Carers Working Group) have begun following the 2025 AGM, and the members, chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of both groups will be announced soon. Both the chairperson of the EWGPWD and chairperson of the EDCWG will be ex-officio members of the Alzheimer Europe Board, with full voting rights.
Kevin Quaid (Ireland), current Chairperson of the EWGPWD and Trevor Salomon (United Kingdom, England), current Chairperson of the EDCWG each gave a speech at the AGM, sharing the excellent work of their respective working groups over the past year and thanking Alzheimer Europe for its support and its commitment to ensuring the voices of people with dementia and carers are heard at the European level.
Alzheimer Europe's five provisional member associations in attendance, having applied for full membership, were then given the floor to presentthe work they are doing in their respective countries. Following, this the AGM voted unanimously to welcome all five of them as full members. Alzheimer Europe warmly welcomes all five of them. They are:
Alzheimer's Care Armenia, represented by Ofelya Kamavosyan
Dementia Lithuania, represented by Ieva Petkuté
Institute for Alzheimer's Disease and Neuroscience, North Macedonia, represented by Jana Strashevska
Serbian Association for Alzheimer’s Disease, represented by Željka Cvjetan Gortinski
Nezabutni Ukraine, represented by Iryna Shevchenko.
A big thank you to all members who attended our 2025 AGM in Brussels, for the great discussions and for using their voices and their votes, thus helping to shape the future of our organisation and ensure our important collaborative work continues.
Pictured: Five new full members were welcomed during our AGM , represented by (left to right): Ieva Petkuté (Lithuania), Ofelya Kamavosyan (Armenia), Željka Cvjetan Gortinski (Serbia), Iryna Shevchenko (Ukraine) and Jana Strashevska (North Macedonia)
For further information, contact: Jean Georges, Executive Director, Alzheimer Europe, 5B, Heienhaff; L-1736 Senningerberg.
AGM delegates reviewed and unanimously adopted Alzheimer Europe's 2024 Annual and Financial Report and the report is now available on our website, as a PDF publication. Printed copies will available at our Annual Conference in Geneva in October. Read our 2024 Annual and Financial Report, here: 
Alzheimer Europe's five provisional member associations in attendance, having applied for full membership, were then given the floor to presentthe work they are doing in their respective countries. Following, this the AGM voted unanimously to welcome all five of them as full members. Alzheimer Europe warmly welcomes all five of them. They are: