OutcomesoftheJamesLindAllianceprioritysettingpartnership.pdfVIP

Outcomes of the James Lind Alliance Dementia priority setting partnership .uk Steering group We are grateful to representatives from the following organisations for their contributions to the James Lind Alliance Dementia priority setting partnership. Dear colleagues Welcome to the James Lind Alliance priorities for dementia research. Alzheimer’s Society is committed to ensuring that research funding is used as effectively as possible to alleviate the impact and burden of dementia and to improve the quality of life for people affected by the condition. It was for this reason that Alzheimer’s Society commissioned Professor Carol Brayne from the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge to lead this exercise to select priorities related to the treatment, diagnosis, prevention and care in dementia, so that future funding may be targeted to the areas of highest need. The prioritisation process has produced a number of outcomes that we would now like to see taken forward. While these will not be used directly as priorities for Alzheimer’s Society’s Research funding, we hope that these questions will be addressed in the wider research field. The headline of these is a top 10 list of priorities for dementia research, but underneath this is a wealth of further research questions that might be addressed. Importantly this exercise involved matching priorities against the current evidence, allowing us to show where the priorities reflect genuine gaps in evidence. These priorities represent the collective view from a wide range of stakeholders representing people affected by dementia, practitioners and clinician groups. We now see it as the role of all those interested in dementia research to consider these priorities and the contribution that they can make to advance our knowledge of quality of life in dementia. Dementia represents a great unmet need and research is required on all fronts. Developing priorities fo