Alzheimer Europe Conference Roundup 2023

Dementia Researcher

Last week Adam Smith attended the 33rd Alzheimer Europe Conference in Helsinki, Finland. In this podcast Adam and his guests bring you highlights from event, sharing news and their best bits from the hundreds of posters and talks delivered. -- This week’s guests are: Dr Victoria Shepherd, Senior Research Fello and Nurse from Cardiff University. Victoria has a special interest in research involving under-served populations with a particular focus on people with cognitive impairment. She leads a programme of methodological research exploring the ethical, legal and practical issues around research involving adults who lack capacity consent. Dr Monica Leverton, Postdoctoral Researcher at King’s College London. Monica is based within the NIHR policy institute in health and social care workforce. Her areas of interest include care for people living with dementia and the social care workforce who support them. She currently leads a project developing the role of dementia champions in homecare. Dr Danielle Jones, Associate Professor in Dementia Studies at University of Bradford. Danielle is a medical sociologist with expertise in Conversation Analysis. She has applied this method to medical communication to investigate how dementia is assessed within memory clinics in the UK. Her current project explores how dementia risk is communicated in medical interaction within both primary and secondary care. Caroline Bartle, Dementia Project Specialist at Ryman Health Care in New Zealand. Caroline has 30 years in dementia care – carer to social worker to CEO – leading workforce development in dementia care. Founder of 3 Spirit Training Consultancy who has trained over 100,000 carers and developed over 500 different health and social care programmes. -- This year’s conference was held under the motto “New opportunities in dementia care, policy and research”. As in previous years, this conference is one of the few in the diary that has a ‘family feel; providing great networking opportunities and bringing together people living with dementia, carers, volunteers and staff of European Alzheimer associations, policy makers, health and social care professionals, researchers and academics. This year had a record turn-out of 1,000 in-person attendees, enjoying a programme covering a broad range of topics, from fundamental science to care, diagnosis, policies, interventions, treatments and more (and for the first-time sessions led and decided by their European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD) and European Dementia Carers Working Group (EDCWG)). -- Links discussed in the show: Conference Website - https://bit.ly/3seI5g4 Conference hashtag - https://bit.ly/45R0RYX EU-Fingers - https://eufingers.com/ INTERDEM - https://interdem.org/ -- You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website. There you will also find a full transcript: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk -- The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast represent those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect those of Dementia Researcher or its supporters.