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SUMMARY:Clinical Trials on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD)
DESCRIPTION:The Clinical Trials on Alzheimer’s Disease conference (CTAD) is a meeting focused entirely on Alzheimer’s Disease Therapeutic Trials with key leaders in Alzheimer Disease research from Industry and Academia getting together and forming partnerships with the objective of speeding the development of effective treatments to fight the disease. \nThe 18th annual CTAD conference will be held in San Diego\, CA\, USA on December 1-4\, 2025.  \nLooking forward to seeing you in San Diego in 2025! \nFind out More
URL:https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/clinical-trials-on-alzheimers-disease-ctad-2/
LOCATION:West Midlands
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:OPTIMISE-ing informed consent
DESCRIPTION:Informed consent is a fundamental principle of ethical research. People with conditions that affect their ability to communicate and/or make decisions may require additional support to decide whether to take part in a study and provide consent. However\, informed consent processes in clinical trials are often not designed to take account of additional communication and/or decision-making needs. This can lead to people being unfairly excluded from trials or\, for some\, it may mean that they are deemed to lack capacity to consent and an alternative person is involved on their behalf. \nWith more accessible information and the right support in place\, people with communication and/or decision-making needs will be better able to make\, or contribute to\, decisions about participating in research. This protects their right to make their own decisions\, and ensures their views are heard. \nOPTIMISE project \nIn conjunction with a group of researchers and a lay advisory group\, the OPTIMISE project is developing recommendations to improve the design of informed consent methods in clinical trials to ensure they are equitable and accessible for people with additional communication and/or decision-making needs. \nThis will be achieved through: \n1. Reviewing existing evidence about enhanced consent processes\n2. Expert stakeholder consultation to develop a set of recommendations\n3. Mapping existing resources (including from CONSULT) onto the recommendations\n4. Developing a toolkit to help researchers and others use the recommendations \nJoin us for the OPTIMISE launch webinar \nWe will be launching the OPTIMISE recommendations at a webinar in December 2025. At this webinar\, we will discuss why inclusive consent matters\, introduce the OPTIMISE recommendations and supporting resources\, and outline how they can help researchers address challenges in recruitment and consent. \nThis will be followed by a live Q&A with our expert panel on the theme: “What are the key challenges in designing inclusive consent processes\, and how can we address them?” Attendees are invited to submit questions ahead of the webinar or during the event. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. The event might be of particular interest to researchers who design and conduct research involving populations with communication and decision-making needs\, anyone interested in how we can deliver more inclusive research\, and those with a role in reviewing or supporting research including REC members\, funders\, and public involvement contributors. \nDate: 1st December 2025\nTime: 2-3pm\nRegistration: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/optimise-webinar-registration​ \nTo submit questions or for more information please contact: Dr Victoria Shepherd ShepherdVL1@cardiff.ac.uk
URL:https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/optimise-ing-informed-consent/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:Affective Resonance and Synaesthetic Perception
DESCRIPTION:We happily invite you to the following lecture in our “Phenomenology of Dementia and Aging Network” series\, taking place on Monday\, December 1\, 2025\, from 14:00 to 15:30 CET (online via Zoom). \nThis time we are delighted to welcome Ragna Winniewski (University of Cologne) who will present a talk entitled: \n“Affective Resonance and Synaesthetic Perception: An Existential Account of Well-Being and Resilience in Dementia” \nRagna works as free-lance lecturer and is PhD candidate in philosophy at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities in Cologne and at Vita-Salute-San-Raffaele University in Milan. By reframing a phenomenology of bodily senses her research project focuses on inter- and intrabodily phenomena such as synaesthesia\, kinaesthesia\, and atmosphere as foundational concepts for theories of embodied cognition and embodied therapy practices. Since 2020 she is co-founder and co-organiser of the “Transdisciplinary Network in Phenomenology of Dementia and Ageing” (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCg3e67djg6vkw2qIxOmkVMDelRJp0c_) \nAs always\, everyone is welcome. If you would like to participate\, please send a short e-mail to edzwiza@uni-koeln.de \nBest wishes from Cologne and Kassel\,
URL:https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/event/affective-resonance-and-synaesthetic-perception/
LOCATION:Online\, United Kingdom
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