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Dementia Dialogue: Brain Health and Social Determinants
The World Dementia Council dialogue is taking place on 14 February 2025. This dialogue will be chaired by Dr Diana Matallana Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia, with opening presentations from Professor Nilton Custodio Medical Director of the Peruvian Institute of Neurosciences, Peru and Dr Lucia Crivelli, Neuropsychology department at FLENI, Argentina.
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Dementia Dialogue: Awareness and Understanding
The World Dementia Council dialogue is taking place on 21 February 2025. This diagloue will be chaired by Dr Ana Luisa Sosa, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Mexico, with opening presentations from Dr Daisy Acosta, Associate Professor at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena, Dominican Republic, and Dr David Aguillon, University of Antioquia, Colombia.
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2025 WDC Satellite Summit
The 2025 Satellite Summit takes place in Lima, Peru on May 16 2025. The meeting brings together policy makers, academics, industry and avocates and will focus on the public policy landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean. Across research, prevention, awareness and care how we make advances.
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Dementia Dialogue: Research and Clinical Trials
The World Dementia Council dialogue took place on 21 November 2024. This diagloue was chaired by Dr Claudia Duran-Anitoz of the Adolfo Ibáñez University Chile with opening presentations from Dr Gustavo Sevlever, Director of Education and Research of the Fleni Institute and Dr Sylvia Josephy Hernandez, Department of Neurology CCSS, Costa Rica.
Dementia represents a significant public health challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean. It is affecting a growing number of people, with the number of people living with dementia more than tripling by 2030, and places considerable, and growing, strain on healthcare systems and families.
The World Dementia Council is organizing a series of high-level roundtables in late 2024/early 2025 to explore key policy areas. The roundtables will bring together leading experts from academia, industry, care, and advocacy to discuss the public policy challenge and develop recommendations for action. Chaired by professors Ricardo Allegri and Paulo Caramelli, the project aims to foster discussion and encourage collaborative solutions.
These virtual roundtables are a precursor to a high-level summit hosted by the World Dementia Council in Lima, Peru on 13 May 2025. The 2025 WDC Satellite Summit will challenge participants to think boldly and offer solutions from prevention, to research and care and ask how advocacy can help secure those advances.