On 29-30 June, the Prevention of Dementia using Mobile phone Applications (PRODEMOS) project held its General Assembly (GA) meeting online. The project is aiming to make an evidence-based dementia prevention strategy using mobile Health (mHealth), accessible to those at increased risk of dementia. The meeting commenced with Edo Richard welcoming almost 40 delegates. During the GA, partners received an update on the work carried out to date and work planned for the coming months, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the different project tasks. The ethical approval has been received in UK and China. During the first day, partners received an overview of the qualitative research work including pilot evaluations. The pilot study was completed in UK and is expecting to start in China by end August. The next session was then dedicated to the mHealth platform with a demonstration of the platform, which is now almost finalised. This was quickly followed up by an update on the systematic reviews conducted within WP2 (Strategies for dementia prevention) including the latest results. The first day was brought to a close with an update on management and finances.
Anders Wimo and Ron Handels started the second day with an update on the health economic aspects. During the session dedicated to the trial, each recruitment centre gave a status report on the study. Next, several scenarios were presented in term of recruitment and follow-up due to COVID-19. A very fruitful discussion took place and then Edo Richard drew the meeting to a close, thanking all the participants for their active contribution to the meeting. Jean Georges and Cindy Birck represented Alzheimer Europe (AE) at the PRODEMOS general assembly meeting. 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). Further information on the PRODEMOS project can be found here: https://www.prodemos-project.eu/