An advance directive preemptively regulates which medical measures should be taken or excluded in an emergency. It applies when the patient can no longer express their will or is incapacitated. However, the wishes expressed can be revoked later, either verbally or even through non-verbal behavior. This is one of the...
Wenn An- und Zugehörige Menschen mit Demenz pflegen, erleben die Betreuenden nicht nur Stress oder das Gefühl mangelnder Anerkennung. Vielmehr erfahren sie auch Positives. Dies hat ein Forschungsteam des Uniklinikums Erlangen und der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in einer aktuellen Studie wissenschaftlich belegt. Pflege muss nicht immer belastend sein. Sie kann auch ihre positiven …
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...
