From 10 to 12 October 2023, the 10th annual Lausanne Workshop (Lausanne X) was held, focusing on "10 Years of Strategic Partnership to End Alzheimer’s Disease". The Lausanne series of workshops was launched in 2014, as a response to the challenge articulated at the UK G8 Dementia Summit, to stop dementia by 2025. It takes place each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lausanne X recognised important progress in the global fight against Alzheimer’s disease and dementia over the past decade and looked to the next set of immediate and longer-range opportunities and challenges.
These are the seven high-level areas for action and collaboration that were highlighted:
• Seize policy opportunities to accelerate Alzheimer’s innovation in medicines, risk mitigation and health system delivery.
• Challenge the status quo to democratise access to affordable Alzheimer’s detection, diagnosis, and treatment for all persons with or at risk of Alzheimer’s, particularly in resource-constrained settings.
• Integrate blood-based biomarkers, digital cognitive assessments and other new tools for detection and diagnosis into routine clinical care.
• Create and align large-scale risk mitigation strategies, brain health assessments and interventions in resource-constrained settings.
• Define and accelerate the delivery of improved high-performing Alzheimer’s interventions, including active immunotherapies and vaccines.
• Harness innovative models for financing, regulatory reviews, real-world evidence, brain health assessments, clinical trials, and other key areas for delivery and adoption of evidence-based interventions.
• Build the political willpower to link and scale global efforts, including in low-resource settings, to fund and deliver innovation at pace.
Lausanne X was organised under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and supported by The Global CEO Initiative on Alzheimer’s Disease (CEOi), Alzheimer’s Disease International, and The World Economic Forum. The workshop is a world stage for solutions-oriented dialogue on Alzheimer’s-related efforts and is a platform for Alzheimer’s stakeholders to report on progress, hold each other accountable, align on opportunities for collaboration, and drive change. Angela Bradshaw represented Alzheimer Europe at Lausanne X. Read the full conference report, here:
https://web.cvent.com/event/fb455c2b-9f58-4b6b-91b1-211319d55fa4/summary
