Conference Photos and Videos
2014 Glasgow
In this section, you will find a selection of photos taken at the conference and a video trailer of the conference.
As a resource to visitors of the Alzheimer Europe Website, we will also included videos of the keynote presentations at the Alzheimer Europe Conference in Glasgow.
Videos from the following speakers have been included:
Opening ceremony welcome by:
- Heike von Lützau-Hohlbein, Chairperson, Alzheimer Europe
- Henry Simmons, Chief Executive, Alzheimer Scotland
- Jeanette Maitland, representative of the National Dementia Carers Action Network
- Henry Rankin, representative of the Scottish Dementia Working Group
and keynote lecture from:
- Geoff Huggins: A rights based approach to developing amd implementing Scotland's National Dementia Strategy
Plenary sessions:
- Colin McKay: Scotland's national human rights plan and it's implications for people with dementia
- Matthias Kloth: The promotion of human rights of older persons by the council of Europe
- Gráinne McGettrick: The UN Disability Convention as an instrument for people with dementia and their carers
- Alex Neil: introduction to the round table discussion
- Jürgen Scheftlein: Dementia strategies and policies
- Henry Simmons, Geoff Huggins, Dorothée Knauf-Hübel, Benoit Lavallart, Marc Wortman and Charles Scerri: Round table discussion on dementia strategies and policies
- Helga Rohra: people with dementia as advocates for change
- Amy Dalrymple: Developing an integrated health and social care model of support for people with dementia
- Marie-Jo Guisset: Living well with dementia inthe community: New approaches, new projects identified by the European Foundations Initiative on Dementia
- Myrra Vernooij-Dassen: Dignity and the role of stigma in dementia
- Debbie Tolson: Practice innovation and policy development
- Dianne Gove: Improving continance care for people with dementia living at home
- Hugh Masters: Improving care in acute hospitals
- Kai Saks: Patterns of transition from home care towards institutional dementia care: Findings of the RightTimePlaceCare
Special symposium
- Helga Rohra: Chairing the European Working Group of People With Dementia
- Agnes Houston: «8 years on, here I am »
- Jean-Pierre: « My expereience of day care in Belgium »
- Nina Balackova
Parallel sessions
- Maribel Pino: Involvement of persons with dementia and their carers in the development of assistive technology solutions: the Living Lab approach
- Gill Phillips and Ken Howard: We can't cure you. We can't cure you but... A story with two endings.
- Rachael Litherland: Dementia Engagement & Empowerment Project – making involvement and influencing meaningful
- Matt Murray and Barbara Woodward: Alzheimer’s Society’s Research Network: 15 years of involving people affected by dementia in research
- Members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group Research Sub-group: Core principles for involving people with dementia in research
- May-Hilde Garden: Training programme for peer support workers
- Štefanija Lukic Zlobek: How Alzheimer Cafe became successful in Slovenia
- Nan Greenwood: Peer support for carers: the experiences of carers and peer volunteers
- Charlotte Clarke: The role and impact of peer support by and for people with dementia and their carers in implementing the National Dementia Strategy for England (DH 2009)
- Rebecca Poz: Delivering Compassion Focused Therapy to couples experiencing a diagnosis of dementia in a group setting: is it feasible?
- Richard Ward: Memory friendly neighbourhoods: Highlights from a programme of knowledge exchange
- Sabine Henry-Gössing: Dementia-friendly cities and police: a new collaboration
- Heather Lundy: Can dementia friendly communities improve the quality of life for people with dementia enabling them to remain living within their own community?
- Nancy McAdam: Nancy– A purposeful life with dementia
- Philly Hare: Time bombs and tsunamis: the impact of negative language and images on people with dementia
- Dianne Gove: Ethical issues linked to the way that dementia and people with dementia are perceived and portrayed
- Mercè Boada: Perception of dementia in 5882 families evaluated in Fundació ACE
- Erika Moisl: Talking about dementia: the views of people affected
- Neva Železnik: Dementia and the media
- Stefania Lukic Zlobec: Ljubljana 2015 Mark the date!
- Henry Simmons, Chief Executive, Alzheimer Scotland
- Iva Holmerova, Vice-Chairperson, Alzheimer Europe
Last Updated: Friday 27 February 2015