Prevent Dementia – In 2015, there were an estimated 900,000 people in the UK and Ireland living with dementia, predicted to rise
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Description: The European Prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia (EPAD) initiative is a unique and ground-breaking approach to streamlining the testing and development of preventative treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.
EPAD is part of a global initiative that will make a fundamental difference to the understanding and management of Alzheimer’s disease in people with very early or no symptoms at all. This could be a game-changer. It is only possible because of the absolute commitment of academics, industry, policy makers and the public to work hand in hand to defeat this global threat .
One of our biggest learnings, after several efforts that didn’t yield the result that we hope for, was that we probably wanted to intervene much earlier. We see there is an opportunity to affect the disease early before significant damage is done and give these disease modifying drugs a chance to show what they can do. Number one is identifying accurately that population in terms of who would benefit most from pharmacological intervention. And the second main challenge is then how does one make decisions on
Preventing the development of dementia in biomarker-positive people would be a fantastic step forward in our fight against Alzheimer’s disease. The EPAD and its novel trial concept will hopefully help speed up the drug discovery progress and bring us closer to this ambitious aim .
Prevent Dementia – In 2015, there were an estimated 900,000 people in the UK and Ireland living with dementia, predicted to rise
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