During a plenary session in Strasbourg, MEPs underlined the scale of the challenge: around seven million people in Europe currently live with Alzheimer’s, a number expected to double by 2030.
Dementia represents “one of our most serious public health challenges”, said budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin, who joined the lawmakers during the plenary, stressing that cooperation is crucial in research, diagnosis and treatment, “by acting together we could get faster and better results.”
