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4.3. The Vallecas Project                       and with the financial support of the
                                                                  Queen Sofia Foundation.
                  Following the completion and analy-
                  sis of the pilot study the protocol was         The Vallecas Project is being carried
                  amended based on the experience                 out in the Queen Sofia Foundation
                  gained and a volunteer recruitment              Alzheimer Center Research Unit by
                  strategy was established (social aware-         researchers from the CIEN Foundation
                  ness campaign in the media, visits to           (Carlos III Institute of Health). It aims
                  centers for seniors, contact pensioner's        to develop a probabilistic algorithm to
                  organizations, etc.). In September 2011,        identify individuals at risk for AD-ty-
                  after the "Global Summit on Alzhei-             pe dementia over the course of a few
                  mer Disease Research" held in Madrid            years. Such an algorithm will be based
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