New insights into dementia risk reduction

There are advances being made in the area of dementia and cognitive ageing. But sometimes it feels like a race against time, so what can the latest research reveal?Evidence-based solutions may help to foster better coordination between health and social care systems across the Europe. Our three guests, whose projects benefited from EU research and innovation funding, are helping to make a complex picture, clearer.Alina Solomon is professor of Neuroepidemiology at the University of Eastern Finland, visiting professor at Imperial College London, and senior researcher at the Karolinska Institute. She is particularly interested in dementia risk detection and therapeutic approaches for dementia risk reduction.Julia Neitzel is assistant professor at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Neitzel uses brain scans in large population studies to discover what protects and hurts brain health.Currently professor at the University of Luxembourg, Anja Leist will soon be taking up a professorship at the University of Heidelberg. Her research focuses on sex and gender differences, socio-economic inequalities, and risk reduction in cognitive ageing and dementia.