We are very pleased to welcome the readers of our Dementia in Europe magazine to this special supplement about the EU-FINGERS project, which is a project funded by the EU Joint Programme – Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND), the largest global research initiative aimed at tackling the challenge of neurodegenerative diseases.
EU-FINGERS is a multinational interdisciplinary consortium that has been growing since its launch in 2020 and is part of the global World-Wide FINGERS® network of multidomain trials for dementia risk reduction and prevention. It gathers world-renowned experts in the field of Alzheimer´s disease and dementia, who are leading pioneering multidomain prevention trials.
EU-FINGERS builds upon the successful experience of FINGER: the Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability, which demonstrated that a two-year multimodal life-style intervention consisting of nutritional guidance, exercise, cognitive training and control of vascular risk factors benefitted cognition in older people at increased risk of dementia. In EU-FINGERS, the partners aim to develop tools to advance, optimise and scale-up the FINGER model across Europe.
