Newswise — Dementia. It’s a word that around 50 million people worldwide are intimately acquainted with every day, along with their unpaid family carers.
In the next 12 months, an ageing population will boost that statistic by 20 per cent, adding to the psychological stress, loss of productivity and lost income for countless families across the globe.
But a new digitally-driven international research project led by the University of South Australia could provide respite for around two million carers living in the Asia Pacific region.
A $2.5 million e-ASIA grant, comprising $1.8 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and $700,000 from four Asia Pacific countries, will fund the development of a virtual assistant tool that will support dementia carers in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
The tool, comprising a website and smart…
