When hearing deteriorates, it affects many areas of a person's life. According to a recent report in the medical journal „The Lancet,“ hearing loss in middle age is even the most significant modifiable risk factor for developing dementia. Eight percent of all dementia cases are attributed to hearing loss. Since timely...
Support, participation, exchange – these were the watchwords of the digiDEM Bavaria Open Innovation Competition. You can now find the three winners of the competition on the digiDEM Bavaria website. The winning entries were an online care course for relatives of people with dementia, a podcast with detailed information about the disease, and an app providing relatives with...
Living healthier, taking better care of oneself – many people resolve to do this at the start of the year. However, for one particular group, this is especially difficult: family caregivers often don't think enough about themselves. Yet, they themselves are often exposed to high burdens. To make them aware of their own situation, the…
Bavaria's Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, Melanie Huml, emphasized at the event „Dementia and Digitalization – New Paths in Bavaria“ on September 24, 2020, in Nuremberg, how important it is not to let research projects like digiDEM Bayern be slowed down by Corona: „The digiDEM Bayern project faced the challenge, during the lockdown, of working with 350 research partners..."
Science Explained in an Understandable Way: In our webinar series digiDEM Bayern Science Watch LIVE, scientists from the project team regularly explain a focus topic from international dementia research and are available live for questions. After eleven webinars, we are taking a brief interim look back here. Science Watch LIVE was launched in early April in response to the...
Die Ursachen einer Demenzerkrankung sind vielseitig. Das Risiko, an Demenz zu erkranken, hängt dabei unter anderen von sozioökonomischen Umständen wie Bildung und Wohlstand ab, wie eine britische Forschungsgruppe erklärt. In ihrem Artikel befasst sie sich mit der Frage, wie sich erbliche Veranlagungen im Zusammenspiel mit sozioökonomischen Faktoren auf die Zeit …
In Deutschland leben zurzeit rund 1,7 Millionen Menschen mit Demenz, allein in Bayern sind es rund 240.000. Für die Betroffenen und ihre Familien bedeutet die Erkrankung eine extreme psychische und physische Belastung, für das Gesundheitssystem und die Gesellschaft eine der größten Herausforderungen der Zukunft. Das „digitale Demenzregister Bayern“, kurz „digiDEM …
