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New available: Online introductory course in English to help pioneers of new meeting centres in different parts of the world to prepare, set up and continue their meeting centre in a sustainable way. The course consists of 8 modules. You can access the videos via these links:Movie 1https://youtu.be/GBd2ymtfm_0 Movie 2https://youtu.be/r7eRpkomCrc Movie 3https://youtu.be/kcEmNDz-ZLY Movie 4https://youtu.be/n1P7N_1U300 Movie […]

On Saturday the 1st of July Rose-Marie gave a lecture at the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) conference. The lecture was about the importance and value of psychosocial care in dementia in historical perspective. You can download her lecture below.

Registration for the IPA conference 29 June-2 July in Lisbon is open. Please find the program here. MeetingDem Network Chair Prof Rose-Marie Dröes will provide a keynote lecture The importance and value of psychosocial care for people with dementia an and carers in historical perspective.

Last Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, prof. dr. Rose-Marie Dröes received the Frans Banninck Cocq medal. It is awarded to individuals who have rendered extraordinary service to Amsterdam over a period of at least 12 years. Dröes received the award for her commitment of nearly 40 years in improving the quality of life of people with […]

Championing physical activity for people affected by dementia – 8 week fully online course from the Association for Dementia Studies This Autumn the Association for Dementia Studies and Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire will be offering its popular, fully online course, ‘Championing physical activity for people affected by dementia’. This is for colleagues supporting people affected […]

In the spring of 2022, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Rose-Marie Dröes and Erik Schokkaert published a new book, Dementia and Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach. They provide an interdisciplinary discussion of dementia in society.   To learn more, please see the abstract and table of contents here: Dementia and Society.

INDUCT-Best Practice Guidance Human interaction with technology in dementia updated with first DISTINCT recommendations   The INDUCT-Best Practice Guidance Human Interaction with technology in dementia (https://www.dementiainduct.eu/guidance/) contains a comprehensive set of recommendations on improvement of technology for people with dementia in three areas, everyday life, meaningful activities and healthcare, and provides evidence to show how […]

Tomorrow, 21 September, it is World Alzheimer’s Day, to raise awareness and educate about Alzheimer’s and Dementia!   On this day, The World Alzheimer Report 2021 about the crucial and timely subject of diagnosis will be launched. Diagnosis is still a major challenge globally, with estimates that 90% of cases still go undiagnosed and with long wait […]

We are very happy to announce that recently TOMOYUKI  YABUKI. Associate professor and manager of the Center for Dementia Care Research and Practices at TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY, in SENDAI in Japan received a national research grant to start up and evaluate 10 model Meeting Centres in Japan. To this end a preliminary Japanese translation of the Meeting Centres […]