We wish to showcase how people with dementia, their carers, Alzheimer’s associations, policy makers, health and social care professionals, researchers and industry adapted to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and how new and innovative ways were found to diagnose, treat, care and provide support in these challenging times. 

We have identified a number of key topics for which we would like participants to submit abstracts for oral, quick oral and poster presentations and which cover two broad fields: Resilience and the COVID-19 pandemic and Societal and medical issues. In addition, we have chosen a number of topics for which we are looking to receive abstracts for quick oral and poster presentations only. We hope to build on the success of previous years where we received over 500 abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

As organisers, we are deeply grateful to the health programme of the European Union which supports the activities of Alzheimer Europe in general and this Annual Conference in particular. This support and the sponsorship of our corporate partners make it possible for us to provide highly competitive registration rates for a truly unique conference.

I hope that many of you will use the opportunity to submit an abstract to share your own experiences, projects, initiatives and research and I look forward to welcoming you online for another unique networking and learning opportunity.

Iva Holmerová
Chairperson / Alzheimer Europe