The University of Cyprus participates in a new multi-million European research consortium led by the University of Manchester to investigate the combined impact of dementia, age-related hearing and vision impairment.
According to a press release, the five year SENSE-Cog project has been funded with €6.5m from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research programme. The project aims to investigate this combined impact and develop new tools that could improve quality of life and optimise health and social care budgets across Europe.
The project seeks to define the scale of the challenges so that authorities across the continent can allocate resources more optimally. At the same time, researchers will also develop online tests, guides and multi-lingual training manuals to help medical professionals diagnose and treat the combined problems more effectively.
The programme will also trial an intervention of at-home support for people with dual- and triple-impairments.