My name is Laura. I’m from Valencia, Spain and I’m 28 years old.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a veterinarian, but Alzheimer's disease came to me with the diagnosis of my grandmother, and that was when I decided to study Pharmacy at the University of Valencia.

While I was working in a pharmacy office, I decided to do a Master’s degree in biomedical research, which allowed me to do an extracurricular internship at the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe (Valencia, Spain) in the Alzheimer's Disease Research Group (GINEA). Currently, I have been at GINEA for almost 3 years, I am working on my PhD thesis which focuses on the study of the influence of gender on Alzheimer's disease; and since November 2023 I am the coordinator of the European PREDICTOM Project, which is based on an international cross-sectoral initiative to bring dementia diagnosis closer to citizens through a customisable cognitive and biomarker screening platform.

My name is Maria Angeles. I live in Gandía, a Spanish town and city in the province of Valencia, in the Valencian Community, which is located by the Mediterranean Sea.

I have worked as a clerk in the tax collection office of the Gandía Town Hall for 10 years. I also worked as a salesperson and product intermediary for 11 years. In addition, I worked in a family business, as an administrator in real estate promotion and construction for 13 years and in another family business of bread and pastries for 3 years.

It was in March 2013 when I became a member of the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer's Association of La Safor, and since March 2015 I have been the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Association. And in December 2020 I became a member of the Board of Directors of the Valencian Federation of Family Associations and Friends of People with Alzheimer's (FEVAFA) as a member.

I have participated in national and regional congresses related to Alzheimer's disease and in numerous training sessions. I have also attended multiple courses on gender equality.

I’m Yolanda and I live in Valencia (Spain). I have a degree in Law and a Master's degree in Occupational Risk Prevention. I work as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance.

I have a family history of people with Alzheimer's disease (father and grandmother), and for more than 30 years I have been a member of the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients of Valencia (AFAV).

I am currently a member of the Board of Directors of AFAV and secretary of the Valencian Federation of Associations of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients (FEVAFA).

My name is Santiago Llopis, and I am a native of Alcoy (Valencia, Spain). I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1975 and as an Industrial Organisation Engineer in 2009 from the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

In between those years, I did a degree in Business Creation, Administration and Management and a Program for Management Development. All this allowed me to be Managing Director in numerous companies in the Valencian Community. He has been retired since 2015.

I am a relative of a person with Alzheimer's disease. This motivates me to form part of the Board of Directors of the Family Association of Alcoy since 2015.

I have been president of the Valencian Federation of Associations of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients (FEVAFA) since December 2020. I am also president of the Patients' Commission of the Regional Ministry of Health and co-chair of the Health Council of the Valencian Community.

My name is Emili and I was a carer for 23 years, together with my family, of my mother Salomé Moliner, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.

This is what motivates me to get so involved in different associations and even to create them dedicated to helping relatives and Alzheimer's patients.

I was founder and I am currently president of the Provincial Association of Relatives of People with Alzheimer's and other dementias in Castellón, and of the Salomé Moliner Alzheimer Foundation. From 2000 to 2010, I was treasurer, member and president of the Spanish Confederation of Relatives of People with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. I was also founder and member of the Valencian Federation of Associations of Relatives of People with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (FEVAFA), and since 1998 representative of the Valencian Federation in the assembly of CEAFA.

In my locality I was a member of the Permanent Commission of the Municipal Council of Social Welfare (2012 - 2015) and is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Autonomous Council of the VC (2012 - present).

Regarding other work and collaborations related to Alzheimer's disease:

• Director of the 1st (Castellón 2004), 2nd (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2006), 3rd (Vigo 2008) and 4th (Seville 2010) by appointment of the CEAFA Board of Directors.

• Dependency Law: participation as a speaker in the parliamentary commission in the Spanish parliament and interview with Mr. Manuel Marín and with all the political groups of the Spanish parliament giving the point of view as a family member on the Dependency Law.

• Participation in the Senate before the Health, Social Policy and Consumption Commission, as a representative of CEAFA, the Alzheimer's alliance comprising the organisations SEGG, CREA, SEN, SEMERGEN, Pascual Maragall Foundation and CEAFA, to request, initiate and present to the commission the procedures for the need for a State Policy on Alzheimer's disease.

• Collaboration through CEAFA in various studies, programmes and projects for different public and private entities (study on specific day centres for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias).

• Author of a chapter of the manual ‘Caring for a person with Alzheimer's’, a state reference centre project on social and health care for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.