Monday, 20 October 2014

18.00-19.00: Opening ceremony and keynote lecture

19.00-20.30: Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

8.30-10.00: Plenary Session PL1: Promoting a rights based approach to dementia

10.00-10.30: Coffee break and poster exhibition

10.30-12.00: Plenary Session PL2: Round table discussion on dementia strategies and policies

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: Satellite symposium

• SS1: European Working Group of People With Dementia

14.00-15.30: Parallel Sessions and Workshops

• P1: Rights and responsibilities of people with dementia
• P2: Dementia strategies
• P3: Involving people with dementia
• P4: Home care
• P5: Assistive technologies
• P6: Training
• AS1: Transformation of the health and social care journey
• IA: INTERDEM Academy (Invitation Only) - starts at 13.30

15.30-16.00: Coffee break and poster exhibition

16.00-17.30: Parallel Sessions and workshops

• P7: Proxy decision-making
• P8: Post diagnostic support
• P9: Peer support groups
• P10: Residential care
• P11: Dementia and intellectual disability
• P12: Sexuality and emotional well-being
• AS2: Making Dementia Everyone’s Business
• IA: INTERDEM Academy (Invitation Only)

19.00-24.00: Gala Dinner

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

8.30 - 10.00: Parallel Sessions

• P13: Consent and advance directives
• P14: Socio-economic cost of dementia
• P15: Dementia-friendly communities
• P16: People with dementia in hospitals
• P17: Early-onset dementia
• P18: Art and dementia
• AS3: Creating a rights-based National Dementia Strategy, delivering it in partnership

10.00-10.30: Coffee break and poster exhibition

10.30-12.00: Parallel Sessions

• P19: Ethics
• P20: Prevention
• P21: Perceptions and image of dementia
• P22: Palliative care
• P23: Outreach programmes
• P24: Involving people with dementia II
• AS4: The success and impact of the Scottish Dementia Working Group – session led by the Working Group

12.00-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: Satellite symposia

• SS2: Clinical trials in dementia
• SS3: Nutrition and cognitive function

14.00-15.30: Plenary Session PL3: Involving people with dementia

15.30-16.00: Coffee break and poster exhibition

16.00-17.15: Plenary Session PL4: Innovation and care

17.15-17.30: Closing Ceremony

Thursday, 23 October 2014

10.00-15.00: Masterclasses organised by Alzheimer Scotland

• Promoting Excellence - Education and Training for the Health and Social Services Workforce in Scotland to support implementation of Scotland’s Dementia Strategies
• Creating Dementia Friendly Communities
• Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy
• Innovation Lab; - what we can learn from each other
• Recent Advances in dementia care – improving nursing home practice

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