Video and photos
2019 The Hague
As a resource to visitors of the Alzheimer Europe Website, we videos of the plenary presentations and symposia at the Alzheimer Europe Conference in Barcelona.
Photos can be viewed following this link: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmKWWxRF
Videos from the following speakers are included:
Welcome and introductory comments by:
- Iva Holmerová, Chairperson, Alzheimer Europe
- Gerjoke Wilmink, Executive Director, Alzheimer Nederland
- Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Chairperson, INTERDEM
- Helen Rochford-Brennan, Chairperson, EWGPWD
- Kavita Parbhudayal, Deputy Mayor, The Hague
- Theo van Uum, Director of Long-term Care, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
Keynote Speeches
- K2. Debby Gerritsen (Netherlands): Empowerment and wellbeing among people with dementia
Plenary Speeches:
- PL1.1. Geoff Huggins (United Kingdom): Improving the diagnosis, post-diagnostic support, care and inclusion of people with dementia: the findings of the 2nd European Joint Action on Dementia
- PL1.2. Wiesje van der Flier (Netherlands): Research leading to better diagnosis and care in memory clinics – findings from the ABIDE project
- PL1.3. Henry Brodaty (Australia): After the diagnosis… what next? Post-diagnostic support for people with dementia and their families
- PL2.1. Wijnand Ijsselsteijn (Netherlands): Warm technology and co-design with people with dementia
- PL2.2. Dag Aarsland (United Kingdom): What role for “wearables” in the detection of people at risk of dementia and in monitoring disease progression
- PL2.3. Marco Blom (Netherlands): Identifying the needs and views of carers of people with dementia: The online platform of Alzheimer Nederland
- PL2.4. Emma Ferguson-Coleman (United Kingdom): Navigating everyday challenges of life-story work with Deaf sign language users with dementia
- PL3.1. Bernd Heise (Germany): My expectations from dementia-inclusive communities
- PL3.2. Mohammed Akhlak Rauf (United Kingdom): Embedding intercultural care to support dementia care amongst minority ethnic communities
- PL3.3. Julie Meerveld (Netherlands): The Dutch National Programme for a dementia-inclusive society – a collaboration involving national and local authorities, associations and companies
- PL3.4. Elina Suzuki (OECD): Comparing dementia care and dementia-friendly initiatives across OECD countries
- PL4.1. Tiia Ngandu (Finland):Multidomain lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive impairment and dementia: From FINGER to World-Wide FINGERS
- PL4.2. Meike Vernooij (Netherlands): The role of imaging in epidemiological studies : findings of the Rotterdam Scan Study
- PL4.3. Sebastian Köhler (Netherlands): Prevention of dementia: Time to act
Neuronet sessions:
- P5.1. Elisabetta Vaudano (Belgium): The Innovative Medicines Initiative and its neurodegeneration portfolio
- P5.2. Carlos Diaz (Spain): Neuronet – Efficiently Networking European Neurodegeneration Research
- P5.3. Ana Diaz (Luxembourg): Patient and Public Involvement in the IMI research portfolio
- P13.1. María Eugenia Sáez (Spain): ADAPTED - Alzheimer's disease apolipoprotein pathology for treatment elucidation and development
- P13.2. Angela Hodges (United Kingdom): PHAGO - Targeting TREM2 and CD33 of phagocytes for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
- P13.3. Martin Hofmann-Apitius (Germany): AETIONOMY - Organising mechanistic knowledge about neurodegenerative diseases for the improvement of drug development and therapy
- P21.1. Malcolm Mcleod (United Kingdom): EQIPD - European Quality In Preclinical Data
- P21.2. Pieter Jelle Visser (Netherlands): EMIF - European medical information framework
- P21.3. John Gallacher (United Kingdom): ROADMAP - Real world outcomes across the AD spectrum for better care: Multi-modal data access platform
- P21.4. Dominique Lesuisse (Belgium): IM2PACT – Investigating mechanisms and models predictive of accessibility of therapeutics into the brain
- P29.1. José Luis Molinuevo (Spain): AMYPAD - Amyloid imaging to prevent Alzheimer’s disease
- P29.2. Craig Ritchie (United Kingdom): EPAD - European prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia consortium
- P29.3. Mercè Boada (Spain) MOPEAD - Models of patient engagement for Alzheimer’s disease
- P29.4. Dag Aarsland (United Kingdom): RADAR-AD - Remote assessment of disease and relapse – Alzheimer’s disease
Special Symposium
- SS4. Angela Pototschnigg (Austria)
- SS4. Idalina Aguiar (Portugal)
- SS4. Geert van Laer (Belgium)
- SS4. Stefan Eriksson (Sweden)
- SS4. Petri Lampinen (Finland)
- SS4. Tomaž Gržinič (Slovenia)
- SS4. Chris Roberts (United Kingdom)
- SS10.1. Pieter Jelle Visser (Netherlands): Clinical data sharing landscape in dementia research: benefits and experiences of data sharing and future perspectives
- SS10.2. Michaela Mayrhofer (Austria): Legal frameworks underpinning data sharing: impact of the GDPR on health research
- SS10.3. Nicola Bedlington (Belgium): The views of patients and the general public on data sharing – the DataSavesLives campaign and the European Patients’ Forum
Closing ceremony
- Gerjoke Wilmink, Executive Director, Alzheimer Nederland
- Iva Holmerová, Chairperson, Alzheimer Europe
Last Updated: Friday 24 January 2020




