Digital Health for People with dementia Date 18.02.2019PR190312 – Parliament hosts National Conference on Dementia Attard, C. (2019) Digital Health Technology to improve quality of life of carers and people with dementia. Maltese Parliament, first national conference on dementia. Significant progress has been achieved in IT, making Malta a leading […]
Volunteers of all ages will be needed Times of Malta In marking World Alzheimer’s Day tomorrow, local researchers are looking for solutions to the challenging issue of people with dementia wandering off. The research, which includes wearable devices that use electronic monitoring, has already involved patients at the early stages […]
A new study is trying to help people with dementia become more independent, via devices that use complex algorithms to recognise human activities. Simultaneously, their carers will receive unique insights into the condition. Here, Iggy Fenech chats to Dr Conrad Attard to understand how pervasive electronic monitoring works and what impact it is having. Published Feb […]
Researchers at the University of Malta are marking World Alzheimer’s Day on 21 September with important research that can have a most useful impact on patients and their carers. The researchers are focusing their study on finding solutions to the challenging issue of persons with dementia wandering off. The researchers […]
A new piece of simple technology armed with a complex algorithm could give dementia patients freedom to wander unattended while simultaneously giving their carers the ability to monitor risk levels. Here, DR CONRAD ATTARD explains the theory behind the study and why they’re recruiting volunteers to join the cause. Dr […]
The aim of this project is to increase the quality of life of People with Dementia (PwD) by assisting them in their daily life activities as well as enabling their social engagement with other persons that include care-givers, family members as well as other members within their community. Given that […]
A documentary following 79-year-old Tom Sivyer after he was diagnosed with vascular dementia, filmed by his grandson Dominic. Shot over two years, the film is told through Dominic’s eyes as he struggles to look after his grandad while, at the same time, his grandparents’ relationship begins to suffer as a […]