INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
The globalisation of dementia:
Issues and responses
Convened by International Longevity Centre–South Africa for the InternationalLongevityCenter
(ILC) Global Alliance
Pavilion Room
Pavilion Conference Centre
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
26 October 2010
Programme
Part 1: Issues and challenges
Chairperson: Professor Monica Ferreira (President, ILCSouth Africa; Co-President, ILC Global Alliance)
13:30 Welcome and introduction
13:40 ILC Robert Butler Memorial Lecture: “Future demographic challenges and the urgency to improve the management of dementia” –
DrHans Groth(Member,Board of Trustees, World Demographic and Ageing Forum,Switzerland)
14:00 “Dementia issues, policy and practices in the UK” – Baroness Sally Greengross (President, ILCUnited Kingdom; Co-President,ILC Global Alliance)
14: 15 Panel input: Dr Lia Daichman(President, ILC Argentina) andMrJayant Umranikar (Chairman, ILC India)
14:40 Discussion
15:00 Refreshments
Part 2: Responses and best practices
15:30 Introduction
15:35 “Is an Alzheimer Plan an appropriate response?” – Professor Françoise Forette (President, ILCFrance)
15:50 “Responsesto dementia in Less Developed Countries, with afocus on South Africa” – Dr Sebastiana Kalula(Director, ILC South Africa)
16:05 Panel input: Dr Sara Carmel(President, ILC Israel),Mr Shinichi Ogami(Project Manager, ILC Japan) andDr Martin Boekholdt(VicePresident, ILC The Netherlands)
16:30 Discussion
16:45 Synthesis–Dr Mary Ann Tsao(President, ILC Singapore)
17:00 An ILC Declaration on a Global Response to Dementia – Dr Masako Osako(Executive Director – Secretariat, ILC Global Alliance)
17:25 Thanks and closure – Dr Sebastiana Kalula (Director, ILC South Africa)
17:30Drinks reception
The symposium has beengenerouslysupported by
SERVIER Laboratories South Africa
ILC ROBERT BUTLER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Robert Neil Butler, gerontologist and geriatricianextraordinaire, died in New York City on July 4, 2010, at the age of 83. He was the Co-President of the International Longevity Centre Global Alliance, and the CEO and Co-Chair of the Alliance for Health and the Future of International Longevity Center USA. Dr Butler trained as a psychiatrist. In 1975 he established the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, in Washington, DC. In 1982 he founded the first department of Geriatrics in the US, at Mount Sinai Medical Centre, where he was Professor of Geriatrics until the time of his death. In 1990 he co-founded International Longevity Center (ILC) with Shigeo Morioka in Japan. Butlerwas a prolific author, and in 1976 won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Why survive? Being old inAmerica. In 1995 he was appointed as Chair of the advisory committee for the White House Conference on Aging. In 2003 he received the Heinz Award for the Human Condition. Robert Butler’s passing has left an enormous void. The global “ageing’ fraternity has been enriched by his legacy and will honour itfor decades to come.
The first ILC Robert Butler Memorial Lecturein the ILC Global Alliance series is given by Dr Hans Groth. Dr Groth hails from Zurich, Switzerland.He trained in Medicine in Germany and Switzerland, and in 1995 received an MBA in the UK. He gained well-rounded experience in the global pharmaceutical industry over three decades – in healthcare markets in Europe, the USA, Canada and Central Asia, in particular. He has recently conducted research on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Siberia and Central Asia, to quantify the potential impact of the diseases on the region, and has been supporting three public health infrastructure/micro-finance projects in South Siberia and Kyrgyzstan. In 2008 he received the Pfizer Global Health Fellow Award for these commitments. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the World Demographic and Ageing Forum. The ILC Global Alliance enjoys a co-operative partnership with the WDA Forum.
International Longevity Centre® is a policy, research and education organisation which studies the impact of longevity on society and its institutions, and promotes healthy and productive ageing. Centres are currently operated in 12 countries.The centres collectively constitute the ILC Global Alliance. See