Emerging disease modifying therapies for older adults with Alzheimer disease: perspectives from the EuGMS special interest group in dementia

Adam H Dyer^{1

2

3}, Helena Dolphin^{4

5}, Susan D Shenkin⁶, Tomas Welsh^{7

8

9}, Pinar Soysal¹⁰, Hanna-Maria Roitto¹¹, Dorota Religa¹², Sean P Kennelly^{4

5}; EuGMS Special Interest Group in Dementia

Collaborators, Affiliations

EuGMS Special Interest Group in Dementia:
Burcu Akpinar Soylemez, Mariana Alves, Cansu Atbas, Cafer Balci, Giuseppe Bellelli, Frederic Blanc, Cagatay Cavusoglu, Yaohua Chen, Maria Cherdak, Alessandra Coin, Maria Giovanna Cozza, Mariana Dangiolo, Melanie Dani, Burcu Balam Dogu, Jamin Du, Christina Eleftheriades, Vincenza Frisardi, Lutz Froelich, Seda Guney, Rowan Harold Harwood, Allen Huang, Ruslan Isaev, Saadet Koc Okudur, Victoire Leroy, Maria Margarida Luis, Jurate Macijauskiene, Pavlinka Milosavljevik, Elen Mkhitaryan, Frank Molnar, Enrico Mossello, Peter Passmore, Geeske Peeters, Christian Pozzi, Terence Quinn, Shibley Rahman, Erik Rosendahl, Amrita Roy, Eefje Sizoo, Lee Smith, Thomas Tannou, Verena Tatzer, Suzanne Timmons, Jos Tournoy, Tarja Valimaki, Maja Velevska, Emma Vardy, Nicola Veronese, Mihai Zamfir

¹ Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
² Institute for Memory and Cognition, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
³ Department of Age-Related Healthcare, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
⁴ Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ Institute for Memory and Cognition, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁶ Ageing and Health Research Group, and Advanced Care Research Centre, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
⁷ Bristol Medical School (THS), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁸ RICE - The Research Institute for the Care of Older People, Bath, UK.
⁹ Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
¹¹ Department of Geriatrics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
¹² Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.

Editorial

Adam H Dyer et al. Eur Geriatr Med. 2023 Oct.

. 2023 Oct;14(5):919-923.

doi: 10.1007/s41999-023-00846-2.

EuGMS Special Interest Group in Dementia:
Burcu Akpinar Soylemez, Mariana Alves, Cansu Atbas, Cafer Balci, Giuseppe Bellelli, Frederic Blanc, Cagatay Cavusoglu, Yaohua Chen, Maria Cherdak, Alessandra Coin, Maria Giovanna Cozza, Mariana Dangiolo, Melanie Dani, Burcu Balam Dogu, Jamin Du, Christina Eleftheriades, Vincenza Frisardi, Lutz Froelich, Seda Guney, Rowan Harold Harwood, Allen Huang, Ruslan Isaev, Saadet Koc Okudur, Victoire Leroy, Maria Margarida Luis, Jurate Macijauskiene, Pavlinka Milosavljevik, Elen Mkhitaryan, Frank Molnar, Enrico Mossello, Peter Passmore, Geeske Peeters, Christian Pozzi, Terence Quinn, Shibley Rahman, Erik Rosendahl, Amrita Roy, Eefje Sizoo, Lee Smith, Thomas Tannou, Verena Tatzer, Suzanne Timmons, Jos Tournoy, Tarja Valimaki, Maja Velevska, Emma Vardy, Nicola Veronese, Mihai Zamfir

¹ Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
² Institute for Memory and Cognition, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
³ Department of Age-Related Healthcare, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. dyera@tcd.ie.
⁴ Department of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵ Institute for Memory and Cognition, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
⁶ Ageing and Health Research Group, and Advanced Care Research Centre, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
⁷ Bristol Medical School (THS), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
⁸ RICE - The Research Institute for the Care of Older People, Bath, UK.
⁹ Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.
¹⁰ Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey.
¹¹ Department of Geriatrics, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
¹² Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.

No abstract available

Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease; Dementia; Disease-modifying therapies.

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