Webinar: A Caring Community: Community-Based Care for People with Dementia – with Dr. David Rester

Demographic change presents society with various challenges. However, at the same time, it offers us the opportunity to actively shape the future and develop innovative solutions. To ensure the quality of life for people in need of care and their relatives providing care in the future, new approaches in advice, support, care, and nursing are needed...

Faster dementia diagnosis with an early detection tool

Mit einem weiteren digitalen Angebot unternimmt digiDEM Bayern, das Digitale Demenzregister Bayern, den nächsten Schritt, um die Lebensbedingungen von Menschen mit Demenz und ihren pflegenden Angehörigen in Bayern zu verbessern. Die Forscher*innen haben einen wissenschaftlich abgesicherten Online-Fragebogen entwickelt. Er ermöglicht es nahestehenden Personen von älteren Menschen, deren kognitiven Abbau einschätzen …

Digital Offering from digiDEM Bavaria: Assessment of Memory Performance

According to the latest World Alzheimer’s Report 2021, 75% people with dementia worldwide live without a confirmed diagnosis. A German study reports a similar proportion. According to the study, 60% people do not have a confirmed diagnosis. Digital tools are a key means of identifying more cases of dementia. That is why the digiDEM Bayern team is presenting a … in the webinar

Faster dementia diagnosis with an early detection tool

With another digital offering, digiDEM Bavaria, the Bavarian Digital Dementia Register, takes the next step to improve the living conditions of people with dementia and their caregivers in Bavaria. Researchers at the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a scientifically validated online questionnaire. It enables...

Analog dial or digital display?

To know what time it is, a glance at the clock is enough. But which type of clock makes it easier for people with dementia to read the time? The analog dial or the digital display? A new study from Japan on dementia-friendly watch design answers this question. People with dementia are daily and multiple...