European Dementia Prevention Initiative
The European Dementia Prevention Initiative brings together researchers involved in dementia prevention studies. It is an investigator-initiated initiative of several groups involved in ongoing dementia prevention trials in Europe. It started in 2011 with the first meeting held in Stockholm, Sweden. In addition to three ongoing randomised controlled dementia prevention trials in Europe, EDPI-collaborators recently managed to obtain funding from the European Union under the 7th Framework Program for a new dementia prevention study using an innovative internet-based intervention strategy, called HATICE (Healthy Aging Through Internet Counseling in the Elderly).
In issue 3 of the Lancet Neurology a report by Tim Dehnel describes the turn to prevention after frustrating difficulties of the dementia disease therapeutics development. The paper describes how EDPI tries to overcome the encountered difficulties in dementia prevention trials by sharing data and collectively tackle methodological problems in dementia research.
Dr. E. Richard
Academic Medical Centre, dept of Neurology
PO Box 22660
1100DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Email: info@edpi.org