Keynote talk at Europe’s largest conference on long term care in September 2019 in Torun -Polland 22. International Long-Term Care Conference. The main theme of the conference “Global challenges in aging: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia”. My talk focussed on lessons for practice arising from our advanced dementia care research. 1000 delegates from 31 countries including Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Portugal, Serbia, Moldova, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Finland, the United States of America, India, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Scotland and Poland.