In September 2016 various partners from euPrevent’s mental health care programme started on the three-year project, ‘Senior-friendly Communities’. The accent is on mental health, with special attention for dementia and age-related depression. Euroregional partners are working on this project together with 30 municipalities from the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (EMR). The aim is to realise senior-friendly municipalities.
The official starting shot for the ‘euPrevent Senior-Friendly Communities in de EMR’ project took place on Tuesday afternoon, 31 January 2017.
Date
January 31, 2017
Location
La Cité Miroir
Place Xavier Neujean, 22
4000 Liège BE
Programme
| 13.30 | Welcome with Coffee |
| 14.00 | Start program |
| 14.10 | Introduction euPrevent Dr. Karl-Heinz Feldhoff |
| 14.25 | Healthy Ageing: A Matter of Chance or Personal Control? Prof. Ruud Kempen |
| 14.45 | Depression in the Elderly: hidden sadness Prof. Frans Verhey |
| 15.05 | Dementia: demographic perspective and the effects for municipalities Prof. Eric Salmon |
| 15.20 | Dutch city working on dementia Marianne Smitsmans-Burhenne, MSc Wethouder WMO en burgerparticipatie in Roermond |
| 15.40 | Project design Senior Friendly Communities Prof. Frans Verhey |
| 16.00 | Virtual start Raymond Stijns |
| 16.10 | Photo-shoot with the participants |
| 16.30 | Network Drink Possibility for regions and/or municipalities to make separate photos during the network drink. |
Photos Kick-off
