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“.