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November 2024
This high-level academic conference for clinicians, academics and industry professionals working in China with international experts participating is being co-convened by the World Dementia Council. The summit will address dementia research, trials, prevention, diagnosis and treatment in China. It takes place in Guangzhou November 9-10 2024.
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November 2024
A high-level virtual roundtable on dementia research and clinical trials in Latin America and the Caribbean. There will be opening presentations from Professor Ricardo Nitrini Professor of Neurology of the University of São Paulo and Dr Sylvia Josephy Hernandez, Department of Neurology CCSS Costa Rica followed by a roundtable discussion. The discussion will be chaired by Dr Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Assistant Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.
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January 2025
Chaired by Dr Maria Carrillo and Professor Philip Scheltens this virtual meeting will bring together international experts to explore early lessons from the delivery of treatments to patients who have a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. There will be opening remarks from Professor Gil Rabinovici, Professor Reisa Sperling and Professor Donna Wilcock with reflections from Dr Cath Mummey.
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February 2025
Chaired by Dr Joanne Pike and George Vradenburg this virtual meeting will explore the lessons for advocacy movements from the roll out of the first treatments for Alzheimer's Disease. The meeting will explore why treatments were adopted by some countries but not in others and how national and international advocacy organizations should respond. There will be opening remarks from three speakers followed by an expert virtual roundtable. The speakers for the event will be announced later in the year.
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March 2025
Chaired by Professor Mark McCellan and Hilary Evans-Newton. There will be opening remarks from three speakers followed by an expert virtual roundtable. The speakers for the event will be announced later in the year. This is an invitation only meeting.
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March 2025
The 2025 Summit takes place in London on March 25 2025. The summit will have parallel strands on disrupting the science: accelerating innovation in prevention, diagnosis and treatments, and a second stand on disrupting the system: building the future health system. The meeting brings together policy makers, academics, industry and avocates and will focus on how to accelerate innovation and deliver change.
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Past events
Read more about World Dementia Councli events that have taken place around the world in person and virtually in previous years. These include in-person WDC summits taking place in London and Japan, dementia side events at the G7 health ministers meeting and side events at international conferences. The Council also health a series of dialogues on different aspects of dementia policy, including clinical trials, the development of biomarkers and treatments, data sharing, technology and care among other topics.
The World Dementia Council brings together global policymakers and leaders in dementia to explore solutions to new and emerging challenges facing people living with dementia. The Council works to promote a shared understanding about the challenge facing the field and how to make progress. The first treatments mark a significant shift for the field. For the first time Alzheimer's Disease is treatable. Even if the impact of treatments is limited and, at the moment, is available in only a few countries, this signals the direction of travel for the field. Over the years ahead there will be more treatments, for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, and to both manage symptoms and to modify the course of the diease. These will be easier and cheaper to deliver and bring greater benefits for patients and caregivers. At the same time understanding about to prevent disease is increasing. As science advances prevention, diagnosis and treatment the public policy challenge becomes implementing them in health systems. And implementing them in a way that doesn't increase national, or global, inequity.
Treatments will not remove the need for care and support. Whether that is for the person with dementia or their caregiver this is a huge area of unmet need. Formal and informal care in impact and in costs are fundamental to lived experience of dementia today. Whether through health and social care systems, funding, or technology, it is possible to deliver interventions that have impact.
The Council is exploring these through virtual and in-person events. Along with the annual WDC Summit taking place in London, the Council is hosting virtual and in person events looking at the impact of dementia in Latin America and the Carribbean. The Council is also hosting a series of virtual dialogues for global experts to understand the impact of treatments and explore how progress can be accelerated. Read more about forthcoming events taking place around the world in person and virtually below.