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relatives of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenera- heimer's disease and other dementias of the IM-
tive disorders patients, developing joint actions to SERSO (CRE Alzheimer) together with the Spanish
disseminate advances in the Foundation research Confederation of Associations of Relatives of Alzhei-
activities. mer's (CEAFA) and with the support of the Queen
Sofia Foundation.
This was the case of the participation in the XVI
FAGAL Interdisciplinary Days, held at the Faculty of Another meeting worth to highlight during 2018 was
Psychology of the University of Santiago de Com- the participation of the CIEN Foundation, on No-
postela on June 9, in which Mª Ángeles Pérez, ma- vember 16, in the 10th meeting between health pro-
nager of CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED, delivered fessionals, Alzheimer's associations and caregivers
a talk entitled “CIBERNED-CIEN Foundation: Lines of “Ten Years of Advances in Alzheimer's disease”.
work”. These training days in Alzheimer's and other Diagnoses and treatments, the result of the work and
neurodegenerative dementias, brought together collaboration between the Federation of Associa-
staff from the Galician Alzheimer's associations, pro- tions of Huelva and the Infanta Elena Hospital. Mª
fessionals from the social and health sector and re- Ángeles Pérez, manager of CIEN Foundation and CI-
searchers in dementias. BERNED, was in charge of delivering the talk “The
role of the CIEN Foundation and CIBERNED at the
At the end of June, representatives of the Associa- Alzheimer Center Queen Sofia Foundation: an inte-
tion of Alzheimer's relatives from Valencia (AFAV, for grative vision”. Pérez talked about how our Research
its acronym in Spanish) visited the Queen Sofia Foun- Center makes the Vallecas Alzheimer Complex a
dation Alzheimer Center facilities. Ms. Ana Mª Ruiz unique model in Spain.
Cano, recently appointed president of the Associa-
tion and Ms. Ana Morón, manager of AFAV, were VI International Conference on Research and
able to meet through Ms. Mª Ángeles Pérez, mana- Innovation in Neurodegenerative Diseases
ger of the CIEN Foundation, the Alzheimer Project
Research Unit and the Residence Care Center. For Coinciding with the week that World Alzheimer's Day
the CIEN Foundation, it is always an honor to partici- is celebrated worldwide, the VI International Confe-
pate, whenever there is an opportunity, in the se- rence on Research and Innovation in Neurodege-
arch for the identification of common spaces and nerative Diseases – CIIIEN - was held in Santiago de
objectives for action with the different Associations Compostela, which gathered more than 100 inter-
of Relatives of Alzheimer's patients and other neuro- national experts during three days of presentations
degenerative diseases that exist in Europe. and knowledge exchanges.

As usual in recent years, in the prelude to the VI In- Organized by the Queen Sofia Foundation, CIEN
ternational Congress of Research and Innovation in Foundation (Center for Research in Neurological Di-
Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIIIEN) (to which we seases Foundation) and CIBERNED (Network Center
devote the nest Section of this Report) on Tuesday, for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Di-
September 18, it was held also in the Faculty of Me- seases), the VI CIIIEN Conference served as an ex-
dicine of the University from Santiago de Compos- change forum on the main advances in research
tela, the Symposium on social-health research in and treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's, Hunting-
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, organized ton’s and other neurodegenerative disorders. This
by the State Reference Center for people with Alz- meeting had the collaboration of the City of San-

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