Alzheimer Europe’s January 2018 newsletter brings you the latest news on our activities and on developments in the dementia field.

Summaries of a few of our top stories appear below.

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The 2017 Alzheimer Europe Yearbook focuses on the topic of residential care facilities in Europe. It provides an overview of the existing care standards and regulatory requirements these facilities need to meet and addresses key areas that impact on the people in residential care: Physical environment; Staff providing care; Health and social care; End-of-life care; and Abuse and use of restraint.

Alzheimer Europe has published a discussion paper “Dementia as a disability? Implications for ethics, policy and practice”. The European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD) was involved right from the start, giving their perceptions of disability and dementia and supporting us in the development of an accessible version of the report. 

On 15 and 16 January, the PRODEMOS project held its kick-off meeting in Amsterdam. This project aims to make an evidence-based dementia prevention strategy using mobile Health accessible to those at increased risk of dementia who are usually not reached by preventive medicine.

Dementia has been included in WHO draft programme of work 2019-2023, following a statement by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and advocacy by Dementia Alliance International (DAI), Member States and civil society ahead of, and during the 142^nd Session of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva.

On 29 January, the ROADMAP project launched its recently finalised surveys to obtain views on the importance of different aspects that relate to mild cognitive impairment and dementia to assess meaningful change in disease progression.