Today, at a European Parliament lunch debate hosted by Christophe Hansen MEP (Luxembourg), Alzheimer Europe launched a new report presenting the findings of its collaborative analysis of recent prevalence studies and setting out updated prevalence rates for dementia in Europe.
Over the past three decades, a number of significant pieces of work have been undertaken to estimate the prevalence of dementia at a European level, including:
- EURODEM study in the early 80s (updated in 2000)
- Alzheimer Europe’s project European Collaboration on Dementia—EuroCoDe (2006-2008)
- ALCOVE, the 1st EU Joint Action on Dementia…
