Research
European Collaboration on Dementia (EuroCoDe)
The EuroCoDe project was initiated by Alzheimer Europe and the board
of the EAGP was asked to participate in the project. Other groups involved
are the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Group, the European
Alzheimer´s Disease Consortium, The European Federation of Neurological
Societies, the INTERDEM (Early detection an timely Intervention in
dementia) group, the International Association of Gerontology (European
Region) and the North Sea Dementia Research Group.
The objective of this network is the provision of essential
data for the development of a sustainable health monitoring and
information system for Alzheimer´s disease and other dementias.
The project therefore aims at developing:
- Consensual prevalence rates for Alzheimer´s disease and other forms of dementia to be used by all the network partners.
- European guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
- European guidelines for non-pharmacological interventions in dementia.
- Euopean parameters for the risk factors of dementia and risk reduction and prevention strategies.
- A European comparison of the socio-economic costs of dementia.
- A European inventory of the support systems
provided by Member States of the European Union to people with
dementia and their carers.
Representattives of the EAGP in this project are:
Ralf Ihl in the steering
committee, Lutz Frölich as leader of the „risk factors
and prevention“ work
package and as work group members Andrzej Kiejna in „prevalence“ as
well as Brigitte Grass-Kapanke in „diagnosis and treatment“.
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Silver Paper
Members of several associations as the European Union Geriatric Medicine
Society, the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology – European
Region, the European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the International
Society for Gerontechnology, and the International Society for the
Study of the Aging Male and other old age experts joined together in
Wroclaw, Poland (11-13 of September 2008). During many debates, which
covered almost all aspects of old age - from molecular and genetic,
through clinical to social issues, participants formulated a Silver
Paper. The Silver Paper will be presented to the European societies:
European Commission, politicians, researchers, clinicians and users
to stress most urgent and sensitive aspects of old age.
The European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry would like to
present the Silver Paper to the members and guests of EAGP web page:
http://www.eugms.org/index.php?pid=195