INTERVENTION OF HM QUEEN SILVIA OF SWEDEN
“While we may feel that there is little cause for celebration, there are encouraging examples of the opposite; of developments that have been achieved through the uniting of minds – by coming together to make a difference. This meeting, Dementia Forum X, also has the ambition to serve as a platform for international collaboration and knowledge sharing which, to me, seems to be the only way forward to achieve lasting change.”
HM Queen Silvia of Sweden was the keynote speaker at Dementia Forum X 2019. Her Majesty encouraged stakeholders to look beyond dementia’s worrying statistics, and focus instead on the vast developmental potential in the field.
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As a professional carer now returned to Portugal after 4 years in England working and get knowledge about dementia diseases and in particular Alzheimner and Parkinson´s diseases, I totally agree with what Queen Silvia of Sweden said on the Forum. However the situation in Sweden is certainly very different from Portugal and even from some other countries mainly in the south of Europe, like Spain and Greece, and the statistics despite be so worrying and probably uncomfortable to know, are very important to understand what the governments of these countries are doing to support the patients that are suffering of these diseases.
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