Alzheimer's Award - Fondation Médéric Alzheimer - Alzheimer's Disease International
Fondation Médéric Alzheimer and Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) have launched an Alzheimer's Award for evidence-based psychosocial interventions for people with Alzheimer's Disease and their carers.
Psychosocial research involves or relates to both the social and psychological aspects of a patient's life. Often this includes the relationship between the personal, internal environment and the wider social world, such as the influence of social and environmental factors on an individual's state of mind or behaviour.
2010 award
A 3rd award has recently been announced at the ADI conference, and details of how to submit proposals will be available soon. For more information contact award@alz.co.uk.
2009 award winners
The award of €18000 for best evidence-based intervention was presented to Dr Amit Dias of the Goa Medical College in India. His intervention, entitled 'Effectiveness of a community based psychosocial intervention for supporting people with dementia and their caregivers in developing countries', has been carried out in Goa with people with mild to moderate dementia and their carers.
The €7000 award for the most promising evidence-based psychosocial intervention went to Anne Margriet Pot of the Free University in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for her project 'Mastery over Dementia: an innovative e-mental health intervention for family caregivers of people with dementia'. Mastery over Dementia is an online intervention for family carers of people with dementia.
2008 award winners
Mary Mittelman received the prize for her proposal 'Translating the NYU Caregiver Intervention from Research to Practise Settings'. An additional prize for the most innovative psychosocial intervention was awarded to Danny George for his submission, 'Can Intergenerational Volunteering Promote Quality of Life for Persons with Mild to Moderate Dementia?'