4 December: 12th Annual CTAD conference held in San Diego

From 4-7 December, the 12th annual Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease (CTAD) conference was held in San Diego, California. CTAD brings together clinical researchers in academia and industry, providing a platform to share data on clinical studies, diagnostics and tools at all stages of the development pipeline. In December 2019, over 1,000 attendees from a wide range of stakeholder groups were present, including our Executive Director, Jean Georges.

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10 December: AE lunch debate examines diagnosis of dementia

Alzheimer Europe (AE) held its final European Parliament lunch debate of 2019 on 10 December 2019, focusing on “Improving the diagnosis of dementia – Findings from European research collaborations”. The event was attended by just shy of 100 people, including AE's national member organisations, government experts on dementia, academics, industry representatives and policy makers., including a number of MEPs.

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10-11 December: Governmental Expert Group on Dementia meets in Brussels

Our Group of Governmental Experts on Dementia held its 3rd meeting on 10 and 11 December 2019, in Brussels. 15 European countries were represented at the meeting, in addition to representatives from the second Joint Action on Dementia (Act on Dementia), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer Europe.

 

Over the course of the two-day meeting, the group heard about national programmes of work, as well as European and international workstreams.

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10 December: Members of the EWGPWD meet in Brussels

The European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD) held its final 2019 meeting in Brussels from 10-12 December. Prior to the meeting, members of the group and their supporters attended the Alzheimer Europe (AE) lunch debate on the topic of improving the diagnosis of dementia. During the meeting, the group and AE staff bid a fond farewell to Miha Kastelic from the Czech Republic, a member of the group since 2018.

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12 December: Presentations and videos from #29AEC are online

We are pleased to announce that presentations (all those for which approval has been given by the presenters) and videos from the 29th Alzheimer Europe Conference #29AEC in The Hague are now available on our website.

 

A selection of our conference photos will also be available online, soon.

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