As a dementia illness progresses, it means for those affected at a certain point: The car will remain in the garage from then on. But how can driving ability be reliably checked? Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Public Health at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have gained new insights into this. Driving a car…
On 12/08/2021, the 400th participant for the digiDEM Bavaria project was recruited and interviewed. The project phase of digiDEM Bavaria started on 01/01/2021. Within one year, 400 people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people with dementia, as well as their caregivers, have so far been surveyed about their care situation. Despite difficult conditions…
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…
Digital offerings can make life easier – and yet they are used significantly less by older people than by younger people. The current Age Report of the German Federal Government has also shown this recently. How do people with dementia and their caregivers feel about digital technologies? Who uses smartphones, tablets, and the like, and who doesn't…
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...
