Biography & Research:
Dr. Kay Deckers works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Alzheimer Centrum Limburg/School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, at Maastricht University. He was trained in neuropsychology and epidemiology. He is specialized in population research into risk and protective factors for cognitive decline and dementia and the translation of epidemiological findings into interventions at the individual and population level. He was one of the developers of the well validated “LIfestyle for BRAin health’’ (LIBRA) score, a modifiable dementia risk index which quantifies someone’s potential for dementia risk reduction. Additionally, he is very concerned with preventive strategies for a brain-healthy society (e.g. development and rollout of public health awareness campaigns, development of the MijnBreincoach app brain-health tool).