Registrations open: 28 May 2024
Participation in this conference is free but you MUST sign up for an account.

Abstract submission deadline: 24 July 2024

Registration deadline: 30 September 2024

1. Guidelines for submitting abstracts

• Alzheimer Nederland, ZonMw, Health~Holland and DEMPACT will accept submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations.
• Oral presentations (parallel sessions) should not exceed 15 minutes and will be followed by 5 minutes of questions.
• All abstracts must be submitted by 24 July 2024 at the latest.

2. Guidelines for writing abstracts

Please respect the following guidelines when writing your abstract:

• Only abstracts submitted in English will be considered.
• Abstracts can be submitted exclusively through your personal myDDRC2024 area; you will need to sign up for an account to have access to this area. Abstracts submitted otherwise will be ignored.
• Abstracts should be written in concise form and should not exceed 2250 characters, spaces included (this limit applies only to the abstract text itself, not the title and authorship).
• Abstracts need to be submitted following the online template guidelines.
• Please make sure to use a non-discriminatory language when referring to people with dementia. The terms “person with dementia” or “people with dementia “ should therefore be used rather than “victims”, “sufferers”, the “demented” or “dementing” or other stigmatizing language.
• Abstracts should be clearly linked to one of the topics of the call for abstracts. You will be asked to choose a specific topic when submitting your abstract.

3. Evaluation of abstracts

• All abstracts will be evaluated by the Congress’ Scientific Committee.
• For each topic, a minimum of 2 members of the Scientific Committee will rate each abstract.

For abstracts submitted for oral presentations, the following procedure will apply:

• The three highest rated abstracts for each topic will be selected as oral presentations for inclusion in the final program.
• Only one abstract per author will be accepted for inclusion as an oral presentation. If more than one abstract qualifies, only the highest rated abstract will be included in the final program. Additional abstracts by the same author may be accepted as poster presentations.
• Abstracts that have not been accepted for oral presentation can be selected for a poster presentation, as long as they reach the required threshold average mark.
• Abstracts that have not reached the required average mark will be rejected.

For abstracts submitted for poster presentation only, the following procedure will apply:

• Abstracts that have reached the required threshold average mark will be accepted.
• All other abstracts will be rejected.

4. Acceptance of abstracts

• All authors will be informed about the decision of the Scientific Committee by 6 September 2024.
• After notification, authors need to confirm their intention to participate in the conference the latest by 30 September 2024. Unconfirmed cases will be removed from the programme and replaced with the next best graded abstract.
• It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that abstracts are correct in terms of accuracy of contents, spelling and grammar.
• All oral and poster presenters need to present in-person at the event in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht.