Special Interest Group Technologies for Brain Health and Dementia Prevention

Following on from the success of the workshop which took place in June 2022, the SDRC and DHI have created the Technologies for Brain Health and Dementia Prevention Special Interest Group(SIG).

The purpose of this SIG is to share knowledge and experience of its members, to discuss how technology can improve brain health and support people living with dementia and their carers. SIG members can come together to form new partnerships around this topic, network, identify and create joint funding bids. We also aim to publish papers utilising the groups varied expertise.

The SIG will allow communication and ideas exchange among people from different disciplines, perspectives and career stages. For more information about the Aims and Themes of this SIG, please visit the SDRC website.

Our first meeting, on 27th January 2023 (rescheduled from 25th November 2022) at Alzheimer Scotland's office in Edinburgh, will set out the group's next steps and priorities for the coming year. We will also discuss some funding calls that have recently launched.

This meeting will be a wonderful opportunity for researchers of all career stages, and everyone else with an interest on technology and innovation to work together and contribute to developing this important area of research.

Here is the event agenda:

13.00-13:30 - Registration

13:30-13:45 - Introduction and updates

13:45-14:15 - Workshop follow-up *

14:50-14:30 - Coffee Break

14:30-15:00 - White paper – collaboration strategies

15:00-15:55 - Shaping the SIG and its future

15:55-16:00 - Final remarks and AOB

* We will hold a discussion around “Ideas” that were generated during the workshop in June (see document “Ideas for Follow-up Workshop”, available here). The plan is to reflect on (1) whether these ideas are comprehensive enough or we missed some relevant areas (2), levels of readiness of these ideas to be turned into projects and (3) members of the SIG who would be interested in joining such project(s).

Special Interest Group: Technologies for Brain Health & Dementia Prevention