The Advisory Board (AB) has been very active during the past last months. Members of the AB were split in three smaller groups and met online on 24 and 25 November to discuss about a possible preventive intervention promoting brain health, which would include lifestyle changes and taking a drug. The focus of the meetings …
EU-FINGERS Advisory Board met in October and November Read More »
On 18 November, the EU-FINGERS Consortium held the 2021 General Assembly (GA) e-meeting, in which all partners of the consortium actively participated. During the e-meeting chaired by Professor Miia Kivipelto, EU-FINGERS partners presented their research progresses, exchange ideas and discussed ways forward. The discussion included findings from the WW-FINGERS SARS-Cov-2 survey, items of scientific dissemination, …
EU-FINGERS held the 2021 General Assembly e-meeting Read More »
The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) has named Professor Miia Kivipelto, Scientific Coordinator of EU-FINGERS, as the recipient of the 2021 Melvin R. Goodes Prize. Introducing the award, Nancy Goodes said, “We are delighted to present this year’s Goodes Prize to Professor Kivipelto, whose monumental work with the FINGER trial has transformed how we view lifestyle interventions …
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EU-FINGERS Consortium, funded by JPND, kicked off in 2020 with the aim of advancing preventive strategies for risk reduction and prevention of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s dementia. An important outcome of this consortium will be the “Multimodal Precision Prevention Toolbox”. This Toolbox will include different tools enabling the next generation of clinical trials, to identify precision prevention …
EU-FINGERS Advisory Board meets in February and March Read More »
The EU-FINGERS Advisory Board, composed by persons with interest in or affected by memory disorders, started its activities, by discussing the concepts and terminology of prevention of memory problems and dementia. The Advisory Board discussions help the EU-FINGERS Consortium to improve the way the research activities are conducted and disseminated. Prevention and risk are relatively …
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How have social distancing measures affected older individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic? Recent research led by Prof. Miia Kivipelto’s team provides some important insights – there were several negative effects but at the same time many lifestyles and behaviours did not substantially change during the first wave of the pandemic in Finland, and some even …
On December 14, the EU-FINGERS Consortium held the 2020 General Assembly e-meeting*, in which all partners of the consortium actively participated. During the e-meeting, EU-FINGERS partners presented their research progresses and discussed ways forward. The discussion included the use of digital technologies and e-health solutions as part of EU-FINGERS’ methodology enabling tailored interventions for risk …
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The award recognises Professor Kivipelto’s more than 20 years of research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Professor Kivipelto, Scientific Coordinator of EU-FINGERS, was awarded the prize by the Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, at a special ceremony in Auckland, New Zealand. Professor Kivipelto …
Professor Miia Kivipelto is awarded the 2020 Ryman Prize Read More »
The 30th Alzheimer Europe Conference (#30AEC), “Dementia in a changing world”, was held online from 20-22 October 2020. Almost 800 participants, from 42 countries, attended the conference, which boasted 260 speakers and 100 poster presentations, sharing their research, projects and experiences in an atmosphere of collaboration and solidarity, against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic. …
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Alzheimer Europe has published the 34th edition of its “Dementia in Europe” policy magazine in an electronic format. The third section of the magazine, Dementia in Society, includes a commentary piece with Professor Gill Livingston, the lead author of “Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission”, who outlines how best to …
Dementia in Europe issue 34 published as an e-magazine Read More »
