On 8 March 2025, Dr Ange Bradshaw (pictured, right), Director for Research at Alzheimer Europe, was invited to speak on The Lisa Burke Show on Luxembourg radio station RTL Today, as part of a panel discussing dementia prevention and risk reduction.
Host Lisa Burke (pictured, centre) welcomed three other guests to the panel :
• Dr Joëlle Fritz (pictured, left) Research and Strategy Specialist, Luxembourg Institute of Health
• Dr Francesca Mangialasche, Geriatrician, Division of Clinical Geriatrics: Alzheimer Research Center Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Executive Director of the World-Wide FINGERS Global Scientific Coordinating Center at the FINGERS Brain Health Institute (online)
• Hassan Fadli, Founder of the 5 Ironmans Beat Alzheimer's Association (online).
In 2021, 20.8% of the EU population was aged 65 years or older. A 2019 Alzheimer Europe report on the prevalence of dementia estimated that there were about 9 million people living with the condition across Europe. This number is projected to double by 2050, rising to 18,846,286 in the European region. Globally, there are around 55 million people worldwide who are living with dementia. Research is now showing that up to 45% of dementias could be prevented: by addressing a range of modifiable risk factors, at different stages of our lives.
You can read more about this episode of the Lisa Burke Show, titled “Dementia in not inevitable”, and about the panel and discussions, via the RTL website, here: https://play.rtl.lu/shows/en/in-conversation-with-lisa-burke/episodes/n/2283310
You can also access it via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.