The fight against Alzheimer’s disease Declaration of the European Parliament on priorities in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Date: 2009-02-19
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: EU action, EU programme, disease of the nervous system, disease prevention, health care, health care system, health policy, medical research








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25.3.2010   


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Official Journal of the European Union


CE 76/90





Thursday 19 February 2009The fight against Alzheimer’s disease
P6_TA(2009)0081
Declaration of the European Parliament on priorities in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
2010/C 76 E/17

The European Parliament,
having regard to Rule 116 of its Rules of Procedure,






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whereas Alzheimer’s disease currently affects 6.1 million Europeans and that figure will double or triple between now and 2050 with the ageing of the population,










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whereas this disease is the most common cause of dependency,










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whereas it is vital that political commitment be made in the areas of research, prevention and social protection,










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Calls on the Council, the Commission, and the governments of the Member States to recognise Alzheimer’s disease as a European public health priority and to develop a European action plan with a view to:






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promoting pan-European research on the causes, prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease,










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improving early diagnosis,










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simplifying procedures for patients and carers and improving their quality of life,










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promoting the role of Alzheimer’s associations and giving them regular support;














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Instructs its President to forward this declaration, together with the names of the signatories, to the Council, the Commission, and the governments of the Member States, as well as to the national, regional and local authorities concerned.





List of signatories
Adamos Adamou, Vittorio Agnoletto, Gabriele Albertini, Georgs Andrejevs, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Emmanouil Angelakas, Alfredo Antoniozzi, Kader Arif, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Richard James Ashworth, Robert Atkins, John Attard-Montalto, Elspeth Attwooll, Jean-Pierre Audy, Margrete Auken, Liam Aylward, Pilar Ayuso, Peter Baco, Mariela Velichkova Baeva, Enrique Barón Crespo, Paolo Bartolozzi, Domenico Antonio Basile, Alessandro Battilocchio, Katerina Batzeli, Edit Bauer, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Christopher Beazley, Zsolt László Becsey, Glenn Bedingfield, Angelika Beer, Bastiaan Belder, Ivo Belet, Irena Belohorská, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Maria Berger, Slavi Binev, Johannes Blokland, Sebastian Valentin Bodu, Guy Bono, Vito Bonsignore, Mario Borghezio, Erminio Enzo Boso, Costas Botopoulos, John Bowis, Sharon Bowles, Emine Bozkurt, Iles Braghetto, Mihael Brejc, Frieda Brepoels, André Brie, Danutė Budreikaitė, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg, Udo Bullmann, Nicodim Bulzesc, Colm Burke, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Niels Busk, Cristian Silviu Bușoi, Philippe Busquin, Simon Busuttil, Milan Cabrnoch, Maddalena Calia, Martin Callanan, Mogens Camre, Luis Manuel Capoulas Santos, Marco Cappato, Giorgio Carollo, David Casa, Paulo Casaca, Jean-Marie Cavada, Alejandro Cercas, Giles Chichester, Giulietto Chiesa, Zdzisław Kazimierz Chmielewski, Ole Christensen, Sylwester Chruszcz, Fabio Ciani, Philip Claeys, Luigi Cocilovo, Carlos Coelho, Richard Corbett, Dorette Corbey, Giovanna Corda, Thierry Cornillet, Michael Cramer, Jan Cremers, Gabriela Crețu, Brian Crowley, Magor Imre Csibi, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Joseph Daul, Dragoș Florin David, Bairbre de Brún, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Panayiotis Demetriou, Gérard Deprez, Proinsias De Rossa, Marielle De Sarnez, Marie-Hélène Descamps, Nirj Deva, Christine De Veyrac, Mia De Vits, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Jolanta Dičkutė, Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos, Alexandra Dobolyi, Bert Doorn, Brigitte Douay, Den Dover, Avril Doyle, Mojca Drčar Murko, Konstantinos Droutsas, Andrew Duff, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Constantin Dumitriu, Lena Ek, Saïd El Khadraoui, James Elles, Maria da Assunção Esteves, Edite Estrela, Harald Ettl, Jill Evans, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Carlo Fatuzzo, Emanuel Jardim Fernandes, Elisa Ferreira, Ilda Figueiredo, Petru Filip, Věra Flasarová, Alessandro Foglietta, Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, Nicole Fontaine, Glyn Ford, Brigitte Fouré, Janelly Fourtou, Juan Fraile Cantón, Armando França, Monica Frassoni, Duarte Freitas, Kinga Gál, Milan Gaľa, Gerardo Galeote, Vicente Miguel Garcés Ramón, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Elisabetta Gardini, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Patrick Gaubert, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Jas Gawronski, Georgios Georgiou, Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg, Claire Gibault, Monica Giuntini, Ioannis Gklavakis, Robert Goebbels, Bogdan Golik, Bruno Gollnisch, Ana Maria Gomes, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Martí Grau i Segú, Nathalie Griesbeck, Lissy Gröner, Mathieu Grosch, Françoise Grossetête, Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Ambroise Guellec, Pedro Guerreiro, Zita Gurmai, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Fiona Hall, Małgorzata Handzlik, Gábor Harangozó, Malcolm Harbour, Marian Harkin, Gyula Hegyi, Erna Hennicot-Schoepges, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Edit Herczog, Esther Herranz García, Luis Herrero-Tejedor, Jens Holm, Mary Honeyball, Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt, Milan Horáček, Ian Hudghton, Stephen Hughes, Jana Hybášková, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Ville Itälä, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Caroline Jackson, Lily Jacobs, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Lívia Járóka, Rumiana Jeleva, Anne E. Jensen, Romana Jordan Cizelj, Madeleine Jouye de Grandmaison, Aurelio Juri, Jelko Kacin, Filip Kaczmarek, Gisela Kallenbach, Othmar Karas, Ioannis Kasoulides, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Metin Kazak, Glenys Kinnock, Evgeni Kirilov, Timothy Kirkhope, Christa Klaß, Jaromír Kohlíček, Maria Eleni Koppa, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Sergej Kozlík, Guntars Krasts, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis, Urszula Krupa, Wiesław Stefan Kuc, Sepp Kusstatscher, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Alain Lamassoure, Jean Lambert, Stavros Lambrinidis, Carl Lang, Esther De Lange, Raymond Langendries, Anne Laperrouze, Kurt Joachim Lauk, Henrik Lax, Johannes Lebech, Roselyne Lefrançois, Bernard Lehideux, Fernand Le Rachinel, Katalin Lévai, Bogusław Liberadzki, Marcin Libicki, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Kartika Tamara Liotard, Alain Lipietz, Eleonora Lo Curto, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Andrea Losco, Patrick Louis, Caroline Lucas, Sarah Ludford, Astrid Lulling, Florencio Luque Aguilar, Elizabeth Lynne, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Linda McAvan, Arlene McCarthy, Mairead McGuinness, Jamila Madeira, Eugenijus Maldeikis, Toine Manders, Ramona Nicole Mănescu, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Catiuscia Marini, Sérgio Marques, Maria Martens, David Martin, Jean-Claude Martinez, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Jiří Maštálka, Véronique Mathieu, Marios Matsakis, Yiannakis Matsis, Maria Matsouka, Iosif Matula, Mario Mauro, Manolis Mavrommatis, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo, Emilio Menéndez del Valle, Rosa Miguélez Ramos, Marianne Mikko, Gay Mitchell, Nickolay Mladenov, Viktória Mohácsi, Claude Moraes, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Eluned Morgan, Luisa Morgantini, Philippe Morillon, Elisabeth Morin, Roberto Musacchio, Cristiana Muscardini, Riitta Myller, Pasqualina Napoletano, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Bill Newton Dunn, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, James Nicholson, Angelika Niebler, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Ljudmila Novak, Cem Özdemir, Péter Olajos, Jan Olbrycht, Seán Ó Neachtain, Gérard Onesta, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Dumitru Oprea, Josu Ortuondo Larrea, Csaba Őry, Siiri Oviir, Reino Paasilinna, Athanasios Pafilis, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Vladko Todorov Panayotov, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Atanas Paparizov, Georgios Papastamkos, Aldo Patriciello, Bogdan Pęk, Alojz Peterle, Maria Petre, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Rihards Pīks, João de Deus Pinheiro, Józef Pinior, Hubert Pirker, Gianni Pittella, Francisca Pleguezuelos Aguilar, Anni Podimata, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, José Javier Pomés Ruiz, Miguel Portas, Horst Posdorf, Bernd Posselt, Christa Prets, Vittorio Prodi, Jacek Protasiewicz, John Purvis, Luís Queiró, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, Miloslav Ransdorf, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Vladimír Remek, Karin Resetarits, José Ribeiro e Castro, Teresa Riera Madurell, Frédérique Ries, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Giovanni Rivera, Marco Rizzo, Giovanni Robusti, Bogusław Rogalski, Zuzana Roithová, Luca Romagnoli, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, Libor Rouček, Paul Rübig, Heide Rühle, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Eoin Ryan, Tokia Saïfi, Aloyzas Sakalas, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, María Isabel Salinas García, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Manuel António dos Santos, Salvador Domingo Sanz Palacio, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Gilles Savary, Lydia Schenardi, Agnes Schierhuber, Margaritis Schinas, Carl Schlyter, Frithjof Schmidt, Olle Schmidt, Pál Schmitt, György Schöpflin, Inger Segelström, Esko Seppänen, Czesław Adam Siekierski, José Albino Silva Peneda, Brian Simpson, Kathy Sinnott, Nina Škottová, Csaba Sógor, Renate Sommer, Søren Bo Søndergaard, María Sornosa Martínez, Jean Spautz, Bart Staes, Grażyna Staniszewska, Peter Šťastný, Petya Stavreva, Dirk Sterckx, Struan Stevenson, Catherine Stihler, Dimitar Stoyanov, Daniel Strož, Margie Sudre, David Sumberg, Gianluca Susta, Eva-Britt Svensson, Hannes Swoboda, József Szájer, Andrzej Jan Szejna, István Szent-Iványi, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Hannu Takkula, Charles Tannock, Salvatore Tatarella, Michel Teychenné, Britta Thomsen, Marianne Thyssen, Silvia-Adriana Țicău, Gary Titley, Patrizia Toia, Ewa Tomaszewska, Witold Tomczak, Jacques Toubon, Georgios Toussas, Antonios Trakatellis, Catherine Trautmann, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Claude Turmes, Evangelia Tzampazi, Vladimir Urutchev, Nikolaos Vakalis, Anne Van Lancker, Geoffrey Van Orden, Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Ari Vatanen, Armando Veneto, Donato Tommaso Veraldi, Bernadette Vergnaud, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Kristian Vigenin, Oldřich Vlasák, Dominique Vlasto, Sahra Wagenknecht, Diana Wallis, Graham Watson, Henri Weber, Andrzej Wielowieyski, Anders Wijkman, Glenis Willmott, Bernard Wojciechowski, Janusz Wojciechowski, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Francis Wurtz, Anna Záborská, Jan Zahradil, Zbigniew Zaleski, Mauro Zani, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Stefano Zappalà, Tomáš Zatloukal, Tatjana Ždanoka, Dushana Zdravkova, Vladimír Železný, Gabriele Zimmer, Jaroslav Zvěřina, Tadeusz Zwiefka