For people with dementia, voting can be quite an issue because of the difficulties people experience when they visit the polling station. Alzheimer Nederland has therefore made an instructional video encouraging polling stations to become dementia friendly.

Deirdre Clune, MEP (Ireland) and member of the European Alzheimer’s Alliance submitted a written question to the Commission on why the Expert Group on Dementia was disbanded.

Alzheimer Europe supports the #EU4HEALTH campaign statement “Europe, let’s do more for Health!” which calls for strong European leadership with effective EU action on health.

The first PARADIGM Open Forum on Patient Engagement took place in Brussels on 10 April. The Forum was organised jointly with two other patient engagement initiatives: EUPATI (European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation) and PFMD (Patient Focused Medicines Development).

On 10 April, a group of international academic, advocacy, government and industry experts published an update on the 2011 NIA-AA (National Institute on Aging - Alzheimer’s Association) workgroup recommendations in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

A new paper by the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) initiative entitled "At, with and beyond risk: expectations of living with the possibility of future dementia" has examined expectations of the implications of learning test results related to dementia risk, based on focus group research conducted in UK and Spain.