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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Dear Affiliates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">The Davos conference group recently adopted an Alzheimer’s initiative backed by about $700 million in funding over the next 6 years:
<a href="https://www.davosalzheimerscollaborative.org/">https://www.davosalzheimerscollaborative.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">The three themes they plan to address are global cohort development, global clinical trials, and healthcare system preparedness. Paul Katz and I were looking at the third theme,
concentrating on encouraging and providing better tools for physicians and other health professionals to screen more clients, perhaps looking at those at-risk, for instance, living in ALFs or other senior housing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">Davos released an October call for proposals with a Dec. 1 deadline that was too tight to assemble a working team. So, Paul and I discussed the idea of trying to assemble a
team in advance of new calls that could respond quickly when a call was released.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia Pro",serif">If you have an interest in joining a working group on this topic, please let ISL know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Neil Charness, Ph.D., William G. Chase Professor of Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">FSU Distinguished Research Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Director, Institute for Successful Longevity<a href="http:// www.isl.fsu.edu"><span style="color:blue"> www.isl.fsu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Psychology, Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1107 West Call Street, Tallahassee, Florida, USA 32306-4301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Phone (office): 850-644-6686; Fax: 850-644-7739<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">E-mail: <a href="mailto:charness@psy.fsu.edu"><span style="color:blue">charness@psy.fsu.edu</span></a>; <a href="http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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