The 1st Cuenca Conference

Building a Healthier Future for Older Adults

Excellence Scholarship Awards

Liat Orenstein for her research:		The Association Between Adequacy of Medical Care for Community-Dwelling Elderly and Healthy Aging

Avigail Lithwick Algon for her research:		Advancing Home-Based Motor and Cognitive Assessments in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Integrating Online Administration, Large-Scale Databases, and Machine Learning

Research Scholarship Awards

Ori Benari for his research:		Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) effects on cognition and neuropathology of older adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) at high dementia risk due to mild cognitive impairment

Shira Freiman for her research:		The relationship between Family Resilience, Take-up of Benefits, and Dyadic Relationship on Caregiver Care Efficacy of family members caring for a person with Parkinson's disease

Adi Waintroub for her research:		The effect of Sensory-Perceptual and Auditory-cognitive Load on Neural Indices of Auditory Processing in Older Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients

Tal Sadeh for his research:		The Effect of Sleep Quality on the Accuracy Of Cerebral Spinal Fluid Based Diagnosis of Brain Amyloid

Hagar Shimon for her research:		Technologies for Healthy Aging with Type 1 Diabetes mellitus

Best Poster Awards

1^st Place: Tal Yahalom Peri for the poster entitled:		Preventing Sarcopenia in Older Adults with T2D and Obesity Treated with GLP-1 RA View Poster >>

2^nd Place: Tal Sadeh for the poster entitled:		Effect of Sleep on Blood Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease: Emerging Findings from the DoD-ADBI Study View Poster >>

3^rd Place: Itay Cohen for the poster entitled:		Screening for Cognitive Dysfunction in Older Adults with Diabetes View Poster >>