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 […]

25 April professor Tomoyuki Yabuki and colleagues from  the Research and Training center for Dementia Care in Sendai in Japan visited our research group Care and Support in Dementia at VUmc in Amsterdam. The day before they visited the Amsterdam Meeting Centre De Pijp where coordinator Joke Bos informed them on the Meeting Centres Support […]

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has commissioned the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to create the world’s largest survey on people’s attitudes around dementia, which will form the basis for the World Alzheimer Report 2019, to be released in September. ADI’s survey is fully anonymous, accessible and available both online and offline in multiple […]

Assistive technologies are growing in the field of dementia, however the evidence is weak and challenges remain. Mike Clark wrote an interesting post about it, highlighting two reviews, see here

The University of Worcester – the Association for Dementia Studies – has been awarded a £587,000 grant from the National Lottery to support people and families living with dementia across the UK. Over the next three years, the funding will support communities across the UK to establish Meeting Centres for people and families affected by dementia. […]