We are pleased to announce the formalisation of a long-standing collaboration with Alzheimer\u2019s Disease International (ADI) by joining in partnership<\/a> to reduce the risk of dementia worldwide.<\/p>\n With over 55 million people living with dementia worldwide and numbers expected to increase to 139 million by 2050<\/a>, there has never been a more vital time for ADI and WW-FINGERS to work together in raising awareness, sharing knowledge and building capacity to better promote dementia risk reduction. Both ADI and WW-FINGERS will work together to increase impact and help improve the lives of people affected by dementia.<\/p>\n The WW-FINGERS Scientific Helpdesk at the FINGERS Brain Health Institute supports the network members for clinical trials harmonization and optimization, implementation of a federated data system, and joint data analysis. <\/p>\n The WW-FINGERS Scientific Helpdesk also supports the network expansion, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, where a more rapid growth of dementia cases is expected in coming years.<\/p>\n Equally, we hope to increase opportunities for collaboration by dovetailing some of our work around non-communicable diseases (NCDs) into reinforcing the importance of addressing the public health crisis that dementia presents, leveraging the risk reduction success of WW-FINGERS for all NCDs.<\/p>\n Paola Barbarino, ADI CEO said<\/p>\n \u201cWe are delighted to join forces with WW-FINGERS to promote tangible risk reduction interventions and to forge greater links with our ADI members, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. This is an exciting opportunity to raise awareness and to encourage governments to include strong risk reduction strategies in their <\/em>national dementia plans<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Professor Miia Kivipelto, Founder and Scientific leader of the WW-FINGERS network says:<\/p>\n \u201cWe are so happy for the growing collaboration with ADI. The partnership between ADI and WW-FINGERS will be pivotal in making dementia prevention a truly global effort, and for the development of preventive interventions which are effective and feasible for different populations.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-forskning","category-partnerskap"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t