Caregivers and relatives of people with dementia often experience a sense of loss even before the death of the person in their care, for example, when their personality gradually fades. As the illness progresses, these losses intensify and are associated with both psychological and physical ailments. ...
Demenz oder nur vergesslich? Wer Gewissheit haben möchte, nutzt die kurzen Wege und lässt kostenfrei seine Gedächtnisleistung überprüfen – wie etwa beim 1. Demenz-Screeningtag von digDEM Bayern in Schwandorf in der Oberpfalz am 05. März 2024. 66 Bürgerinnen und Bürger in Schwandorf haben sich im „Begegnungsraum“ des Caritasverbandes für den …
Kids4Dementia is a program that aims to educate children about dementia. But how effective was early education if the goal is to improve students' attitudes toward people with dementia? How well could the program be implemented in schools? Australian researchers investigated this. More than 75 percent of people...
Memory training, brain fitness exercises, early dementia detection tests, or organizational aids for daily care: The range of apps for people with dementia (PwD) and their caregivers is diverse. A research team from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Bavarian Digital Dementia Register (digiDEM Bayern) has for the first time examined German-language apps for PwD and for caregivers for scientific evidence and …
A research team from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Digital Dementia Registry Bavaria (digiDEM Bayern) has, for the first time, evaluated German-language apps for people with dementia and for caregivers based on scientific evidence and user quality, arriving at two sobering results. For most dementia apps available on the so-called "self-payer market," there is no scientific evidence of their...
