Dementias 2025 Programme

Dementias 2025 is a two-day conference highlighting the key challenges, advances and best practice in the world of dementia care. 

Curated by conference chairs John O'Brien and Alistair Burns, the Dementias 2025 programme promises specialist-led talks on:

Day 1 - Thursday 6th February

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Registration and refreshments
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Welcome and introduction
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Legal and ethical issues associated with assisted dying

Julian Hughes, RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Bristol University and Honorary Consultant at the Royal United Hospitals in Bath

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Dementia prevention

TBC

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Updates in genetic testing

Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate and Honorary Neurology Consultant, University of Cambridge

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Break - refreshments and exhibition viewing
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Uncommon dementias

Matthew Jones, Consultant Neurologist, Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences

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Industry Symposium

Supported by Eli Lilly

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Blood biomarkers for diagnosing dementia

Vanessa Raymont, Associate Professor, University of Oxford and Dementias Platform UK

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Lunch and poster presentations
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Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) and other non-pharmacological approaches

Dr. Gloria Wong, Associate Professor at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading

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Supporting families affected by dementia

Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and CEO, Dementia UK

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Industry Symposium

Supported by Life Molecular Imaging 

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Case studies

Chaired by Ross Dunne

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Break
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The future of dementia care

Jeremy Isaacs, National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People's Mental Health, NHS England

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Industry Symposium

Supported by Roche

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Primary care and dementia

Professor Dame Louise Robinson, Academic GP and Professor of Primary Care and Ageing, Newcastle University

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Summary and close of day 1
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Networking Reception

Day 2 - Friday 7th February

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Registration and refreshments
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Frontotemporal dementia

James Rowe, Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Director of Cambridge Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders, University of Cambridge


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Management of common medical co-morbidities in people with dementia

TBC

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Industry Symposium

Supported by Alzheimer's Research

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Hearing and vision loss and dementia

 Iracema Leroi, Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin and Global Brain Health Institute 

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Break
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Diet and dementia

Professor Emma Stevenson, Head of School of Biomedical, Nutritional and Sport Sciences, University of Newcastle

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Industry Symposium

Supported by TBC

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Driving and dementia

Paul Donaghy, MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow and Honorary Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Newcastle University and Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Industry Symposium
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Lunch and poster presentations
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Poster presentation results and prize giving
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Lewy body dementia

Professor John-Paul Taylor, Professor of Translational Dementia Research, Newcastle University

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Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Dr. Ben Underwood, Assistant Professor of Applied and Translational Old Age Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

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Emerging therapies in Alzheimer's disease

Professor Catherine Mummery, Professor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London

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Closing comments and end of conference