This was announced in Monaco, on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th World Alzheimer's Day.

Speaking during a support dinner chaired by Prince Albert II of Monaco and attended by André Azoulay, Advisor to HM the King and Founding President of the Essaouira-Mogador Association, Ms. Catherine Pastor, President of the Mediterranean Initiative on Alzheimer's Disease, welcomed the partnership of her Foundation with the Essaouira-Mogador Association, the South-Morocco Alzheimer Association, chaired by Professor Kissani, Director of the neurological department of the Mohammed VI Hospital in Marrakech, and the Coeur de Gazelles Association, which is at the origin of this pilot centre in Essaouira.

This centre will have five functions. It will be a matter of offering Memory Consultations to identify, guide, and support patients and their families. This establishment will also act as a Research and Expertise Centre to develop medical research and help towards a better understanding of this disease in Morocco.

It will serve as a reception, listening, and information platform. Another function: to offer a place for living and stimulation to help and improve the autonomy of patients. And finally, it will be a friendly space to contribute to the social integration of sick people. Professor Kissani, in liaison with the neurology team of the Mohammed Ben Abdallah Hospital in Essaouira, will ensure the medical and scientific control of the Centre with the support of the various institutions mobilised by the Mediterranean Foundation on Alzheimer's Disease, based in Monaco.