“Alzheimer’s-Related Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Understanding and Responding to Delusions and Hallucinations” — the latest report in The Gerontological Society of America’s Insights & Implications in Gerontology series — underscores the clinical, emotional, and societal impact of psychosis in individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and stresses the need for comprehensive, person-centered approaches to care.

Smartphone- or tablet-based memory tests can capture cogntive decline more quickly than conventional testing. These findings come from a study by DZNE in collaboration with university hospitals in Germany, the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the US, and the start-up “neotiv”. In the researchers’ view, digital tests like these could help accelerate clinical trials for new dementia drugs, particularly regarding Alzheimer’s disease. Over the longer term, they also see potential for use in clinical routine. The results were published in the scientific journal “npj Digital Medicine” and are based on data from about 200 older adults.