Evaluation and Implementation of Tech & Trials

Technology & Dementia Week Special – Episode Three – Evaluation & Implementation of Tech & Trials. So, you have done the research, found a tech intervention that could help people… what next?

This week we turn the spotlight on tech and dementia research, we have three special podcasts (released on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), numerous blogs from people researching and using the latest technologies, and updates on the wider field.

Our podcasts have all been recorded with early career researchers working across Europe, undertaking research projects aiming to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers through technology and from the DISTINCT Programme (Dementia: Intersectorial Strategy for Training and Innovation Network for Current Technology).

In this show guest host Dr Anna Volkmer talks to Simone Felding and Kübra Beliz Budak from the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and Dr David Neal from Amsterdam University Medical Centre.

In addition to exploring evaluation and delivery, each guest shares information on their own projects:

• Simone is interested in the anthropology of health her work focusses on observing how a social robot interacts with people with dementia living in nursing homes, which is linked to how social robots are implemented in long-term care.
• Kubra is a Psychologist by training. She is interested in the implementation processes of Active Assistive Living (AAL) technology to enhance psychosocial well-being of people with dementia.
• David originally worked as an NHS doctor, and is founder of health tech start-up Vesalian. David is carrying out a randomized controlled trial of the FindMyApps intervention (FMA). FMA is designed to support people with mild cognitive impairment and dementia to use tablet computers, with the aim of increasing social participation and self-efficacy.

For more information on DISTINCT and guests projects visit: https://www.dementiadistinct.com/

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