26th International Conference of ADI Presentations

The Changing Face of Dementia

This page brings together some of the presentations from the conference.

The Programme and Abstract Booklet is available (PDF 16.5MB).

Plenary sessions

Alzheimer's Disease Prevention and Practice Related to Dementia in Indigenous Communities

• Kristen Jacklin - Understanding dementia in the indigenous communities in Canada (PowerPoint)
• Robin Shawanoo - First Link and Working in Oneida: Challenges and ways to overcome (PowerPoint)
• Nienke Van Wezel - Reaching out to the ethnic minorities in the Netherlands (PowerPoint)
• Gladys Maestre - Strategies for engaging minorities and special populations in dementia research: findings from the Maracaibo Aging (PowerPoint)

Emerging Approaches in Psychosocial Research

• Elaine Wiersma - It's managing yourself to give yourself the best that life can give you: Self-Management of dementia (PowerPoint)
• Sube Banerjee - Quality of life - The Stroud symposia series (PowerPoint)
• Amit Dias - A successful community based solution from India (PowerPoint)
• Mary Lou Kelley - End of life care in dementia (PowerPoint)

Lifestyle and Alzheimer's Disease Prevention

• Carol Greenwood - Nutrition, diabetes and dementia prevention (PowerPoint)
• Nikos Scarmeas - Exercise and diet and dementia prevention (PowerPoint)

New Developments in Alzheimer's Disease

• Ronald Petersen - Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging initiative (PowerPoint)

The Public Health Agenda

• Christine Bryden - Perspectives of a person with dementia 10 years on (PowerPoint)
• Scott Dudgeon - The result of the Rising Tide: The impact of dementia on Canadian society (PowerPoint)
• Marc Wortmann - Alzheimer's Disease International: Making dementia a global health priority (PowerPoint)
• Anders Wimo - Alzheimer's Disease International: Making dementia a global health priority (PowerPoint)

Parallel sessions and workshops

10/66 Dementia Research Group - ADI workshop

• Findings of the 10/66 Dementia Research Group (PowerPoint)

Advocacy

• Leslie Cartz-Piver - An Alzheimer campaign in France (haute Vienne): impact on public opinion and stigma (PowerPoint)
• Anthea Innes - Consulting with people with dementia on the northern Ireland regional dementia strategy (PowerPoint)
• Michael Hagedorn - Konfetti im kopf - an activation campaign using the power of creativity (PowerPoint)
• Matthew Vargehese - The impact of the Dementia India report 2010 (PowerPoint)
• Michael Splaine - Special populations, special policy challenges (PowerPoint)

Alzheimer Cafes - ADI workshop

• Jo Hague - Creation of Lostwithial Memory Cafe (PowerPoint)
• Marco Blom - Alzheimer Cafes in the Netherlands (PowerPoint)

Art and Dementia

• Sherry Dupuis - Enhancing person-centred care through research-based drama (PowerPoint)
• Pia C Kontos - Using the arts to rethink personhood in person-centred dementia care (PowerPoint)
• Mary Mittelman - Evaluation of a museum experience for people with AD and their family members (PowerPoint)
• Margaret Cameron - A more holistic approach to support (PowerPoint)
• Luis Fornazzari - Creativity, dementia and brain reserve capacity (PowerPoint)
• Judith Leitner - Rosa, a photo-documentary on love and memory (PowerPoint)

Biomarkers and Risk Factors

• Amanda Khan - Temporal horn Ventricular volume: a sensitive biomarker in Alzheimer's disease progression (PowerPoint)
• Leung-Wing Chu - Association between alcohol consumption and cognitive impairment in Chinese older adults (PowerPoint)
• Juan Llibre Rodriguez - Does African ancestry protect against dementia? A population based case-control study in an AD mixed Cuban sample (PowerPoint)

Caregiver Support

• Anna Byszewski - The driving and dementia toolkit (PowerPoint)
• Alison Douglas - Measurement of harm outcomes after hospital discharge reliability and validity (PowerPoint)
• Yasmin Taylor - Dementia and assessment: more than ticking the boxes (PowerPoint)
• Nora Kelner - Delivering programs and services within cultural and community-based services: a needs assessment (PowerPoint)
• Andrea L Ubell - Program partnerships that work: the Alzheimer society of York region model (PowerPoint)
• Henry Brodaty - Family caregivers in managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (PowerPoint)

Caregiver Support Programs

• Marge Dempsey - Family care managers - a community based relationship-centred model of care for individuals with dementia and their care-partners (PowerPoint)
• Catherine Ward-Griffin - Enabling partnerships among people with early stage Alzheimer's, family caregivers and providers (PowerPoint)
• Huali Wang - The relationship between social support and mental health status among caregivers of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment (PowerPoint)
• Penny MacCourt - Disenfranchised grief and dementia (PowerPoint)
• Lisa van Mierlo - Dementelcoach: effect of telephone coaching on informal and professional carers of community dwelling people with dementia (PowerPoint)
• Oi-I Chio - Occupational therapy for family caring for people with dementia: preliminary effects and relating factors (PowerPoint)
• Robert Friedland - Evaluation of a dementia awareness program in the African-American community (PowerPoint)

Care Models and Philosophy

• Dayna Morrow - Memory's footprints: fighting stigma through empathy (PowerPoint)
• Gwendolyn De Geest - The living dementia journey - the person comes first (PowerPoint)
• Virginia Bell and David Troxall - Person-centred (dementia) care - the next 25 years (Powerport)
• Laeticia Nagatcha-Ribert - Professionals dedicated to dementia care? (PowerPoint)

A Changing Melody

• Sherry Dupuis - Building Authentic Partnerships in Dementia Care (PowerPoint)

Cholinesterase inhibitor treatment in Alzheimer's disease from clinical trials to real-world coverage

• B Lynn Beattie - The historical significance of the Alzheimer's Drug Therapy Initiative in British Columbia (PowerPoint)
• M Maclure - Trends in the utilization and costs of services associated with cholinesterase inhibitor coverage (PowerPoint)
• G-Y R Hsiung - Alzheimer's Drug Therapy Initiative: Seniors Medication Study (PowerPoint)
• C Jacova - Clinical meaningfulness in cholinesterase inhibitor treatment outcomes (PowerPoint)
• N Chappell - Caregiver perspectives on cholinesterase inhibitor treatment outcomes (PowerPoint)
• P Lee - Next steps for the Alzheimer's Drug Therapy Initiative (PowerPoint)
• P Lee - Cholinesterase Inhibitors in a real-world coverage study (PowerPoint)

Clinical Features

• Razvan Moraru - Dominant personality features in mild cognitive impairment vs. Alzheimer's disease (PowerPoint)
• Ioana Ioancio - Pain quantification in severe Alzheimer's disease: advantages and disadvantages of pain assessment scales (PowerPoint)
• Corinne Fischer - Delusions, behavioural symptoms, quality of life and caregiver burden in Alzheimer's (PowerPoint)

Coping with Growth - ADI workshop

• Johan Vos - Coping with Growth (PowerPoint)

Cultural Issues

• Kristen Jacklin - Diverse experiences: perspectives on Alzheimer's disease and dementia in aboriginal communities in Ontario, Canada (PowerPoint)
• Nienke van Wezel - The Dutch Alzheimer tearoom: a unique intervention in reaching Turkish and Moroccan caregivers (PowerPoint)
• Wendy Hulko - Decolonizing dementia care: a grounded theory of memory loss and memory care for secwepemc nation elders (PowerPoint)
• Renne P Alegria - Discourse production of Alzheimer's disease patients: sociolinguistic and cultural preservation (PowerPoint)
• Elaine Wiersma - The context of dementia in rural northern communities in Ontario (PowerPoint)

Diagnosis

• Amanda Khan - A Novel MRI-compatible Brain Ventricle Phantom for Software Validation (PowerPoint)
• Jing Gao - Parietal lobe changing are the important image changing of AD (Power Point)
• Hidezo Mori - Visualization of perforating branches of cerebral arteries toward clinical evaluation of vascular disease and Alzheimer's-overlap syndrome (PowerPoint)

Ethics

• Mary Schultz - Dementia, safety and risk for abuse (PowerPoint)
• David Malloy - Physicians' ethical positions and their responses to a dementia themed ethical dilemma: a cross-cultural study (PowerPoint)
• Fabrice Gzil - Implementing the principle of autonomy in dementia care: from theory to practice (PowerPoint)
• Megan-Jane Johnstone - Ethics and end-of-life decision making in dementia care: a critical reappraisal (PowerPoint)
• Megan-Jane Johnstone - Metaphors, stigma and the case for euthanasia in Alzheimer's disease (PowerPoint)
• Elana Brief - Genetic prediction of AD in indigenous communities: intercultural ethical implications (PowerPoint)

Family and Personal Dementia Experiences

• Fiona Sudbury - Dying with dementia: family members experiences and observations of end-of-life care (PowerPoint)
• Maria Gantman - Depression in elderly caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: what does it depend on? (PowerPoint)
• Eleanor Silverberg - The 3-a grief intervention model: addressing ambiguous loss for dementia caregivers (PowerPoint)
• Debra Hunt - The lived experience of young-onset dementia (PowerPoint)
• Andrew Ketteringham - My name is not dementia (by Alzheimer's Society) (PowerPoint)

Fundraising - ADI workshop

• Marc Wortmann - A Shared Vision For A World Without Alzheimer's Disease (PowerPoint)

Future Treatments

• Amy Streater - Tools and skills to facilitate cognitive stimulation therapy groups effectively (PowerPoint)
• Nancy Emerson Lombardo - Nutritional supplement combination therapy feasibility, safety and biomarker clinical trial in cognitively normal adults (PowerPoint)
• Elisa Aguirre - Development of an evidence based long term cognitive stimulation therapy programme for dementia (PowerPoint)

Health Management

• Lisa Loiselle - Mobilizing knowledge for persons with dementia and families at diagnosis: a participatory research project (PowerPoint)
• Elaine Wiersma - Exploring perceptions of self-management for dementia (PowerPoint)
• Karenjit Kaur - A pilot study into fators influencing medication discrepancies amongst elderly patients post-hospitalization (PowerPoint)
• Marco Blom - The crucial role of case management in the development of client-centred dementia care in the Netherlands (PowerPoint)

Housing, Design and Technology

• Anthea Innes - Design and the environment: discussing the reliability and validity of a design audit tool (PowerPoint)
• Elizabeth Steggles - A partnership to ensure safety for people with dementia (PowerPoint)
• Frances Morton - Shifting the balance of care for persons with dementia: findings from southwest Ontario (PowerPoint)
• Maria McManus - Hearing, sound and the acoustic environment for people with dementia (PowerPoint)
• Linda Garcia - The role of physical and social environments in managing behaviours in advanced dementia: a multisite study (PowerPoint)
• Frances Morton-Chang - Dementia-friendly design recommendations in a world of risk mitigation (PowerPoint)

Knowledge Transfer

• E Lusk - Pay it forward - Your Role in Translating Knowledge to Practice (PowerPoint)
• K LeClair - Building capacity for better care: behavioural support systems across Canada (PowerPoint)
• Carrie McAiney - Development of partnerships in dementia care (pidc) alliance (PowerPoint)
• Wendy Hudson - Exploring inter-sector communities of practice as a strategy to support best-practice palliative care for people with dementia (PDF)
• Maggie Gibson - Frailty, dementia and disasters: a knowledge translation (KT) intiative targeting health care providers (PowerPoint)
• Agnes Houston - Through our eyes; a life with dementia (PowerPoint)

Meaningful Activity and Social Engagement

• Sandra Hobson - Shared occupation when one spouse has dementia: impact on person and couple identity (PowerPoint)
• Marvin E Knobloch - Outings for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia provide meaningful experiences and quality of life (PowerPoint)
• Peter Whitehouse - Intergenerational nature-based programs to foster brain health (PowerPoint)
• Rebecca Genoe - Meaning focused coping in early stage dementia (PowerPoint)
• Tara Stringfellow - Volunteering: meaningful contributions by people with dementia (PowerPoint)
• Faranak Aminzadeh - Social stimulation or social dislocation? The encounters of newly relocated persons with dementia with the social environment of retirement residences (PowerPoint)

Mild Cognitive Impairment

• Kelly Murphy - Cortisol and cognition in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (PowerPoint)
• Howard Chertkow - Severity of Mild Cognitive Impairment does not predict progression (PowerPoint)
• Leung-Wing Chu - Clinical, cognitive and genetic predictors of conversion from amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's disease in Chinese older adults (PowerPoint)
• Irena Martinic Popvic - Mild Cognitive Impairment in patients with cartoid disease (PowerPoint)
• Paula M McLaughlin - Visual search efficacy during the prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease: do auditory cues help focus attention? (PowerPoint)

The National Alzheimer's Disease Policy Forum: a Discussion on the Status of Alzheimer's Disease Public Policy

• Florence Lustman - A national strategy: implementation of the French Alzheimer plan 2008-2012 (PowerPoint)
• Sung Hee Lee - Korea's 'War on Dementia' (PowerPoint)
• Sube Banerjee - National Dementia Strategy for England (PowerPoint)

New Opportunities for Non-Communicable Diseases

• Marc Wortmann - NCD Summit (PowerPoint)
• Mike Hodin - NCDs and Alzheimer's (PowerPoint)
• Sylvia Beales - Ageing and Non Communicable Diseases (PowerPoint)

Pharmacological Treatments

• Frank Molnar - Should FDA, EMEA, Health Canada, consort accept last-observation-carried-forward analyses? A systematic review of dementia drug rcts (PowerPoint)
• Frank Molnar - Measures of clinical significance employed in dementia drug rcts (PowerPoint)
• Li-Yu Tang - Exercise and leisure activities prolong the cognitive enhancing effect or cholinesterase inhibitors? (PowerPoint)

Posters of Distinction

• Patrick L McGreer - Screening assays for a-beta aggregation blockers: potential for Alzheimer disease treatment (PDF)
• Carlo Alberto Grandi - Effect of multisensory stimulation on heart rate in a group of patients with Alzheimer disease and behavioural disorders (PowerPoint)
• Yumiko Momose - The relationship between job-related stressors and stress responses of nurses working in intermediate nursing home in Japan (PowerPoint)
• Erica E Hack - Does multilingualism protect against Alzheimer's disease? Findings from the nun study (PowerPoint)
• Courtney L Ropp - The impact of brain infarcts on dementia varies by apolipoproteine and educational status (PowerPoint)
• Balu Chakravarthy - Amyloid β1-42-associated p75ntr expression in human neuroblastoma cells and hippocampal cells in murine and human AD brains (PowerPoint)

Psychosocial Interventions

• Marijke Van Dijk - The imagination method; a new approach for caregivers of people with dementia in nursing homes (PowerPoint)
• G Allen Power - Dementia beyond drugs: changing the culture of care (PowerPoint)
• Gillian Rowe - Implicit processes enhance cognitive abilities in aMCI (PowerPoint)
• Mitchell Slutzky - Affect Regulation Therapy (ART) for the treatment of cognitive and health disorders (PowerPoint)
• Dolly Dastoor - Stage-specific non-pharmacological interventions for persons with congnitive impairment (PowerPoint)
• Chris J Materne - One weekly spaced retreival training can lead to learning in people with dementia (PowerPoint)

Role of Amyloid Brain Imaging in the Revised Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

• Serge Gauthier - Role of Amyloid Brain Imaging in the Revised Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease (PowerPoint)

Rural Dementia

• Debra Morgan - Satisfaction with telehealth in a memory clinic for rural and remote patients (PowerPoint)
• Karin Sjőgren - Person-centred care and associated resident outcomes in rural Sweden (PowerPoint)
• Marie Jo-Guisset Martinez - Mobile support services to meet users needs in rural French areas (PowerPoint)
• Peter Birkett - Rural solutions for rural people (PowerPoint)
• Anthea Innes - Diagnostic and post-diagnostic support for people with dementia and their carers in rural Scotland (PowerPoint)

Service Delivery

• Faranak Aminzadeh - Can persons with dementia re-create "home" in a retirement home? (PowerPoint)
• Marion Villez - Respite care: evolution of the concept and the programmes. An international perspective (PowerPoint)
• Sara Bartlett - Inmates undergo training to care for inmates with dementia (PowerPoint)
• Jo James - Transforming dementia care in the acute UK hospital - running to catch up (PowerPoint)
• Heidi Härmä - Finnish rehabilitation system - the challenges for people with early-onset dementia and their relatives (PowerPoint)

Supporting Formal Care Providers

• Kay Kallander - Touch the spirit engagement (activity) program (PowerPoint)
• Sarah Price - A Canadian twist to an iconic dementia care philosophy (PowerPoint)
• Janice Robinson - Dying with dementia: integrating a palliative approach (PowerPoint)
• Susan Glister - Exceptional training, support and retention for staff in a dedicated Alzheimer's facility (PowerPoint)
• Diane Mansour - Capacity building for community development centres - Beirut - Lebanon (PowerPoint)
• Anne Pizzacalla - Gently does it! Improving dementia care and reducing risk in the acute care setting (PowerPoint)

Workshop on Methodologies for Clinical Trials in Pre-MCI Persons with Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI)

• Barry Reisberg - Introduction (PowerPoint)
• Ken Rockwood - Cognitive dynamics: how variability in brain function influences the risk of cognitive decline (PowerPoint)
• Barry Reisberg - Current knowledge of Methodologies for Clinical Trials in Pre-MCI Persons and Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) (PowerPoint)
• Barry Reisberg - Discussion of Clinical Instrumentation for Subject Selection and Assessment (PowerPoint)

Where next?

• 2011 conference report
• ADI conferences