Dementia

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Kumar Ponnusamy, Norfolk and Suffolk FT Dementia Nurse Consultant:
24 November 2022

Norfolk and Waveney care homes pilot improves dementia care

A care home pilot tasked with improving dementia diagnosis and support has been successful and will be rolled out more
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25 October 2022

Norfolk and Norwich use VR to deliver dementia insights for training

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has turned to virtual reality to improve clinicians understanding of living with
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Addenbrookes AI scan
27 August 2021

Addenbrooke’s Hospital trials AI to help speed up dementia diagnosis

A patient at Addenbrooke’s Hospital has become one of the first in the country to take part in a trial
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A person using Cognetivity's iPad test
17 May 2021

InterSystems and Cognetivity partner up to support dementia detection tool

InterSystems is partnering up with Cognetivity to support its solution that uses AI to detect dementia up to 15 years
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A person using Cognetivity's iPad test
12 November 2019

Cognetivity receives £900,000 to trial dementia detection tech with NHS

The 12-month project seeks to determine whether Cognetivity's iPad-based cognitive assessment tool can outperform existing techniques in dementia pathways.
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A person using Cognetivity's iPad test
9 September 2019

Using AI assessment to tackle dementia in ultra-early stages

Dementia remains the leading cause of death in England and Wales. As the NHS faces one of the biggest health
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29 August 2019

Manchester LHCRE to invest £14.3m in integrated care tech

One of the first areas to be addressed will be dementia, with the aim of improving care for people living
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Medical woman using virtual reality
17 June 2019

Virtual reality tool improves carers understanding of dementia

The tool aims to increase empathy and understanding of lesser-know symptoms by enabling healthcare professionals to experience them first hand
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18 April 2019

Imperial College opens £20m centre to develop dementia-friendly homes

The care research and technology centre joins six national discovery science centres that collectively make up the UK Dementia Research
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21 January 2019

First care robot linked to smart homes tested for dementia patients

The care robot uses sensors embedded in a smart home to keep track of where patient’s are in the house,
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