On 10-11 April, the PRODEMOS – Prevention of Dementia using Mobile phone Applications- project held its general assembly meeting in Brighton (UK) hosted by the University of Sussex (UoS). The meeting commenced with Harm van Marwijk (UoS) welcoming almost 20 delegates. Then, Edo Richard (Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam - AMC) introduced the meeting and gave an overview of the project. Nicola Coley (INSERM) presented the systematic reviews conducted within WP2 (Strategies for dementia prevention). Activities within the WP3 (crossing cultural barriers) work stream were reported including the preliminary results interviews conducted in the Netherlands, UK and China. Bram van de Groep (VHS) showed a demo of what the mHealth platform will approximately look like, including goal setting and population management possibilities. The day was brought to a close by Anders Wimo (KI) who presented the health economics of dementia prevention.
The second day of the meeting was dedicated to the preparation of the trial including the recruitment strategies, procedures and measurements in Sussex, Cambridge and Beijing. Then, a very fruitful session took place on the trial practicalities and challenges. This was followed by discussions on the trial pilot in Sussex and Beijing. Linda Barnes (UCAM) delivered a presentation on the dissemination work and highlighted that the PRODEMOS consortium has already done impressive dissemination activities. Before the wrap-up session, Marieke P. Hoevenaar-Blom (AMC) gave an update on the coordination and management of the project.
Jean Georges and Cindy Birck attended the general assembly meeting on behalf of Alzheimer Europe (AE). AE is partner in the project and is involved in the coordination and management, crossing cultural barriers and dissemination and communication work packages of this project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 779238 and the National Key R&D Programme of China (2017YFE0118800).