Ref. Manuscript (ID#11136): “Needs for care and service use in dementia: Baseline 
assessment of Portuguese participants in the Actifcare cohort study” 

Authors: Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Maria J. Marques, Conceição Balsinha, Alexandra 
Fernandes, Ana Sá Machado, Ana Verdelho, Bernardo Barahona-Corrêa, Helena Bárrios, 
João Guimarães, Joana Grave, Luísa Alves, Manuel Caldas de Almeida, Teresa Alves Reis, 
Martin Orrell, Bob Woods, Marjolein de Vugt, Frans Verhey, on behalf of the Actifcare 
Consortium 

 

Dear Editor of Acta Médica Portuguesa, 

 

Regarding the manuscript (ID#11136) accepted for publication I, undersigned Frans 
Verhey, Project Coordinator of the Actifcare (Access to TImely Formal Care) Consortium 
(EU-JPND grant number 733051001), certify that all the included authors acted on behalf 
of the Actifcare Consortium. These authors fully met the criteria for authorship and have 
completed the journal-specific author and conflict-of-interest disclosure forms. 

 

As usual in the Actifcare project publications, we kindly ask that the ‘Actficare Consortium’ 
may be considered corporate/group author of the manuscript and appear in the article 
together with the designated individual authors, for citation and indexation purposes (on 
behalf of the Actifcare Consortium, or just adding Actifcare Consortium to the list of 
authors). All members of the corporate/group authorship are listed in the manuscript’s 
Acknowledgments. 

 

Date: 14.05.2019 

Name: Professor FRANS VERHEY (Maastrich University) 

Signature: