ISSN: 2578-6490
Professor
Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine
Danube University Krems
Austria
Tel: +43-6132-21410
Dr. Stefanie Auer is Professor for Dementia Studies in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Preventive Medicine at the Danube University Krems, Austria. She also serves as Scientific Director of the MAS Alzheimerhilfe in Upper Austria. Dr. Auer and her team has developed a community care model for persons with dementia and their caregivers since 2002, the model of “Dementia Service Centers” (Auer et al, 2015). Within this care model, early disease detection, counselling, stage specific training and guidance throughout the disease is offered for persons with dementia and their support providers. A longitudinal data base is connected to this project since 2002 collecting baseline- and follow up data on persons with cognitive deficits and persons with dementia. Dr. Auer has received several National Grants from “Fonds Gesundes Österreich”, the Austrian National Bank, The Austrian Science Fonds (FWF) and the County of Upper Austria. The work of the team is supported by the Austrian Ministry for Social Affairs for several years in sequence. MAS participates as a consortium member in a recently funded EU AAL Project “Dayguide” for persons with dementia. Dr Auer initiated a University Master course for “Dementia Studies” in 2009 at the Danube University in Krems and she is directing this Master course. Dr. Auer is a member of the pan-European research network “Interdem”.
