Registration opens in December 2024
We are inviting abstracts for presentation at the conference, focusing on the following five areas:
Strategy and Commitment
- Citizenship and rights
- Dementia as a disability
- Dementia as a public health priority
- Dementia care education
- Dementia policy and plans
- Diverse populations – inclusion, equality, cultural issues
- Economics of dementia
- Employment, labour laws and dementia
- Engaging people with dementia and care partners in advocacy, policy and research
- Healthcare system readiness
Early Detection and Diagnosis
- Biomarkers and early detection
- Clinical trials in low- and middle-income countries
- Dementia diagnosis, treatment, care and support
- Diagnosis, diagnostic tools and cognitive assessments
- Early onset, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and mild dementia
- Empowerment and peri-diagnostic support
- Epidemiology
- Less common dementias and syndromes
- Medical-social collaboration
- Risk factors and primary health care
- Staging of dementia
Access to Care
- Different treatments and dementia
- Experience and walk through with people with dementia
- Importance of cultural context training for care partners/providers
- Migration, care and dementia
- Non-pharmacological interventions
- Person-centred care and models of care
- Post diagnostic support for people with dementia and care partners
- Psychosocial interventions
- Rehabilitation and reablement
- Well-being and quality of life
Community Support
- Attitudes, awareness and stigma
- Case management and counselling
- Community partnerships / public-private-people partnerships
- Dementia awareness
- Dementia friendliness and inclusivity
- Dementia friendly environment at home
- Dementia friendly wards
- Development, growth and the role of Alzheimer and dementia associations
- Social isolation, loneliness, depression and the consequences for people with dementia and care partners
- Women and dementia – sex and gender in research and policy
- Young care partners
Environment & Business
- Assistive technology, artificial intelligence and innovation
- Dementia architecture and design
- Dementia inclusive language
- Dementia related social enterprise
- Dementia research & innovation
- Global Dementia Observatory (GDO) and dementia research blueprint
- Information systems for dementia and registries
- International collaboration on data sharing
- International collaborations, challenges and opportunities
- Restraint free and restraint reduction
- Underrepresented populations and dementia: increasing inclusivity, diversity and access
