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Healthwise Wales cohort signs up to support dementia research

We’re delighted to be working with the HealthWise Wales cohort to recruit volunteers to Great Minds. Great Minds members play an active part in fast-tracking treatments for dementia. They share health data and complete cognitive tasks so that we can match them with studies that will help identify the origins of poor brain health. To date over 1,000 members have joined Great Minds.

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Many HealthWise Wales participants and their families have been affected by dementia and have told their cohort leaders that dementia research is important and should be a research priority. By working with Great Minds, HealthWise Wales are able to deliver dementia research opportunities to their participants.

 

Working with Great Minds provides an exciting opportunity to facilitate research that our participants are passionate about, whilst extending the use of our unique cohort to address this debilitating condition.

- Dr Pauline Ashfield-Watt, Research Manager, Healthwise Wales

 

HealthWise Wales participants complete research questionnaires and have their healthcare data associated with their records. This is ideal for dementia research because the information collected from lifestyle questionnaires and other health data can be linked to the cognitive questionnaires from the Great Minds project.

 

Find out more about how Great Minds volunteers support dementia research.