Maurice O’Connell, Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland, Ireland, moconnell@alzheimer.ie

Alzheimer Europe wants to use the opportunity of the participation of people with dementia in the 19th Alzheimer Europe conference to organise an informal workshop to explore ways to improve the involvement of people with dementia within the organisation. The workshop will aim at assessing the interests of people with dementia and their expectations from an involvement in national Alzheimer associations and the European umbrella organisation.

Alzheimer Europe hopes to be able to improve its conferences and the involvement of people in its conferences and other activities based on the recommendations and ideas that will be made during this workshop.P