We are pleased to present the 30 edition of our Dementia in Europe magazine. The magazine, which is largely focused on dementia policy, details some of our recent efforts to ensure dementia remains a European priority. We discuss the recent European Parliament elections and our #DementiaPledge2019 campaign, which sought to engage as many MEPs as possible, to ensure dementia is a priority for the EU. We are hugely grateful to our national member organisations and members of the European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD) for their vital support, without which the campaign could not have been a success. We also thank all 230 MEP candidates that signed the pledge, and look forward to working with those elected MEPs now in the 2019-2024 European Alzheimer’s Alliance.
We also report on our most recent European Parliament lunch debate, which looked at dementia research as a European priority. Presentations were given by Pierre Meulien of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), Mikko Hiltunen of the University of Eastern Finland and from Stéphane Hogan of the European Commission. Some of our own involvement in dementia research is presented, with Another aspect of our EU-level work is our involvement in different is EU-funded research projects and in this edition of the magazine, we take a look at three of these: We introduce a new project, RADAR-AD (Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse in Alzheimer’s disease); we talk to some of the stakeholders in PARADIGM - Patients Active in Research and Dialogues for an Improved Generation of Medicines –about why they became involved in the project; and we speak to the project coordinators of the recently-finished AETIONOMY project, about its outcomes and impact.
The European Disability Forum tells Dementia in Europe readers about its European election campaign, which sought to break down voting barriers, both legal and physical. The World Health Organisation and WHO Europe shares progress made on the Global Action Plan on Dementia so far and we also take a look at Horizon Europe - the successor to the Horizon 2020 research programme. The latest Brexit developments and their implications for different aspects of European policy and practice are also explored and at national level, we look at Spain’s new National Alzheimer’s Plan. In our society section, we cover a range of policy-related activities both from our national members in Finland, France and Scotland, and from other stakeholders, including an article looking at four different carers’ networks across Europe. Additionally, EWGPWD member Petri Lampinen (Finland) shares with us his experience of using the new European Disability Card.
Past issues can be freely downloaded here: https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/resources/publications?combine=&field_publication_type_target_id=51929
