Stress and anxiety, feeling overwhelmed by daily life, or a lack of social support – people who care for relatives with dementia often experience a high burden. External help is often scarce. However, technology-supported home-based measures are increasingly a way to promote health, offer emotional support, and help family caregivers...
digiDEM Bayern schreibt eine Erfolgsgeschichte fort: Mit mehr als 3.000 Teilnehmenden hat das größte Demenzregister Deutschlands einen neuen Höchststand erreicht. Das vom Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Gesundheit, Pflege und Prävention (StMGP) geförderte Leuchtturmprojekt zählt damit zugleich zu den größten europäischen Vorhaben zur Erfassung von Langzeitdaten im Bereich der Versorgungsforschung zu Demenzen. …
How Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support doctors in diagnosing dementia was shown in a study by US and Chinese scientists published in July 2024. The researchers addressed the question of to what extent AI can improve the accuracy of dementia diagnosis. Often, the exact diagnosis of dementia presents a...
Digital technologies open up new possibilities in therapeutic work with older people – especially in memory work. In the context of life story-oriented conversations, personal memories are to be evoked with the help of images, videos, and objects. This can promote mental activity and increase the well-being of people with memory impairments. Such…
As cognitive decline progresses in people with dementia, „Advance Care Planning“ (ACP) can be a valuable support for those affected as well as for their caregivers and relatives. This is because ACP helps to identify individual preferences for future treatment and document them in a structured manner. ...
When people with dementia and their caregivers search for information about dementia, they often use traditional search engines like Google or Bing. However, conversational platforms based on artificial intelligence, so-called chatbots, are increasingly being used. A language model like ChatGPT has been trained on billions of terms, words, and…
The Bavarian Digital Dementia Register (digiDEM Bayern) has reached a new high with 2,500 participants from all over Bavaria. This makes the dementia research project the largest dementia registry in Germany and one of the most extensive long-term data collection projects in dementia research in the European Union (EU). In the project, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry...
Die Erhebung von Krankheitsdaten über lange Zeiträume ist die Grundlage für eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Gesundheitsversorgung. Insbesondere bevölkerungsbasierte Registerdaten ermöglichen die systematische Erfassung von Krankheitsverläufen bei chronischen Erkrankungen. Auch die Versorgung von Menschen mit Demenz und deren pflegenden An- und Zugehörigen kann von Registerdaten ganz entscheidend profitieren. So werden in Demenzregistern …
The risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia is higher for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). But to what extent is it possible to predict the progression to Alzheimer's dementia at all? Why can this be an important factor? An accurate prediction could help doctors in their decision-making regarding treatment of...
digiDEM Bavaria, the largest digital dementia registry in Germany, continues to grow and reaches a new high with more than 2,000 participants from all seven Bavarian administrative districts. This unique research project is one of the largest projects for the collection of long-term data in dementia research within the European Union (EU). The …
