The dementia landscape project was launched by the World Dementia Council (WDC) in 2021, aiming to review international progress towards the 2025 goals identified at the 2013 G8 dementia summit. As part of this project, the WDC is hosting a series of global dialogues with members of the international dementia community, reflecting on where we have come from, where we are now, and what the next steps should be. On 26 October, WDC held a global dialogue on psychosocial research in dementia as part of this dementia landscape project.
Attended by over 40 international experts in the field, the global dialogue was opened by Lenny Shallcross and Anthea Innes. The session took the format of an open discussion led by a few short presentations by Mary Mittelman, Research Professor in Psychiatry from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Perla Werner, Professor of Community Mental Health at University of Haifa, Bob Woods, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology of Older People, Bangor University which were introduced by the WDC co-chair Huali Wang
The brief presentations were followed by 40 minutes of lively discussion, moderated by Anthea Innes. Hilary Doxford, former Vice Chair of the European Working Group of People with Dementia, also provided a short presentation in which she captured and summarised some of the important issues that had been raised, explained how this was relevant to people with dementia and thanked the researchers present for their important work. AE Director for Projects, Dianne Gove, attended the WDC dialogue and took part in the discussion.
