We are delighted to announce the early stage researchers who have been selected by our jury, to benefit from the bursaries provided by the Alzheimer Europe Foundation to attend and present at the 34th Alzheimer Europe Conference, in Geneva in October. The selection of the ten bursaries was based on the best average scores each received from the jury members. Here are the details for the special session we have organised to showcase their work, "Special symposium SS3. Dementia researchers of the future", taking place on 9 October from 12:00 - 13:00 and chaired by Iva Holmerová (Czechia) and Fania Dassen (Netherlands):
• SS3-01 Özlem Çiçek Doğan (Turkey): Understanding the experiences of individuals with dementia and their caregivers after the Turkey-Syria earthquakes: a qualitative study
• SS3-02 Natalia Soldevila-Domenech (Spain): Predictors of the cognitive response to multimodal lifestyle interventions for cognitive decline prevention: pooled analysis of four clinical trials
• SS3-03 Electra Chatzidimitriou (Greece): The predictive value of social cognition assessment over and above neuroimaging for 1-year functional outcomes in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
• SS3-04 Raphaella Paradisi (Greece): Modified Cued Recall test for the diagnosis of dementia of the Alzheimer's type in a Greek population of adults with Down syndrome: a validation study
• SS3-05 Matěj Kučera (Czech Republic): The role of risk factors in development of cognitive disorders and cognitive decline in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands: comparative SHARE prospective study
• SS3-06 Eda Atay (Turkey): The effect of cognitive stimulation therapy on apathy, loneliness, anxiety and activities of daily living in elderly individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's
• SS3-07 Nina Stopar (Slovenia): Risk factors for dementia among patients in memory clinic
• SS3-08 Marina Makri (Greece): An innovative online educational program on Neurodegenerative Genetic Counseling developed in Greece, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Turkey
• SS3-09 Gabriela Początek (Poland): The meanings of the life story of a person living with dementia and their tendency to "wander"-the narrative perspective of Polish caregivers
• SS3-10 Anja Mrhar (Slovenia): The effect of individual characteristics on the level of nutrition related knowledge: exploratory study for older adults across levels of cognitive impairment.
You can find more details about this and other sessions at our conference, in our detailed programme: https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/conferences/2024-geneva/detailed-programme
We currently have more than 850 delegates registered for our conference so make sure you get your place before late registrations close on 29 September! If you have not yet registered for our Annual Conference, you can do so via this link: https://www.alzheimer-europe.org/conferences/2024-geneva/online-conference-registration
