Singapore, May 20 -- Researchers from the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a partnership between Monash University and Peninsula Health in Australia, have developed a novel method for improving dementia detection in hospitals by combining traditional methods with artificial intelligence (AI).

Approximataely 50 million people worldwide live with dementia, a number expected to triple by 2050, according to the World Alzheimer Report. In Australia, there is still a need to substantially improve our methods for counting people with dementia. Accurate Identification is critical to understanding the true size of the problem nationally, and to be able to effectively plan services. However, routine health data that are currently used fo...