mySupport study
The mySupport study is an international study that aims to adapt, implement and evaluate the Family Carer Decision Support intervention in six...
Posted 7 days ago
New manifesto INTERDEM to guide future (psychosocial) dementia research has now been published
A way to improve scientific knowledge about psychosocial interventions in dementia is to seek better understanding of the mechanisms underlying...
Posted 9 days ago
The Annual GSA Conference 2019 as Experienced by Two PhD Candidates
The annual GSA conference is devoted to advancements in dementia-specific and other gerontological research. After a long flight, we arrived in...
Posted 23 days ago
Impression Alzheimer Europe conference the Hague
The Alzheimer Europe conference began a day early for me with the INTERDEM meeting, which provided an insight into the foundations, growth, and...
Posted 30/10/2019
Interdem meeting (The Hague, October 2019)
The annual INTERDEM meeting will occur on 23rd October 2019 (8.30-17.00 hours) in The Hague, annex to the Alzheimer Europe conference (23 evening...
Posted 21/10/2019
Report on Exchange By Jem Bhatt
I am a PhD student at University College London supervised by Dr Georgina Charlesworth, Dr Katrina Scior and Professor Paul Higgs. Through my...
Posted 21/10/2019
Article of the month – September 2019
The website committee has chosen the following article as publication of the month September Yates, L., Csipke, E., Moniz-Cook, E., Leung, P....
Posted 21/10/2019
Vacancy in the Photo-activity project for people with dementia within the Marie Sklodowska Curie funded DISTINCT-ITN
According to the Marie Curie conditions candidates – have lived or worked more than two years outside the host country (in this case the...
Posted 30/09/2019
Article of the month – August 2019
The website committee has chosen the following article as publication of the month August: Christie et al. eHealth interventions to support...
Posted 25/09/2019
How we got dementia on the global health agenda – A long journey
Starting from scratch When I started my work at Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) by the end of 2006, I learned from the representatives...
Posted 25/09/2019
My Passion about Dementia Research
My current area of research interest is dementia care and particularly how to improve the quality of life for people with dementia through...
Posted 12/09/2019
2019 International Psychogeriatric Assocation conference (IPA) @ Santiago de Compostella
Early September 2019, some 400 participants from around the world gathered in Spain for the bi-annual IPA-conference. The four conference days...
Posted 10/09/2019