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Background Research into Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias increasingly involves large-scale data-sharing initiatives. The development of novel digital tools and assessments is likely to increase the need for these. This presents ethics and governance challenges to ensure the use of these data is able to maximise the benefit to patients and the public. Discussion We consider the challenges associated with informed consent and governance in the context of dementia research. We set out the potential of novel data governance approaches for the future of data sharing for dementia. Summary The data trust model proposed in discussions of data governance may have potentially valuable application for dementia research. Such inclusive approaches to trustworthy data governance should be considered as data-sharing initiatives are established and develop.

Original publication

DOI

10.1186/s13195-020-0584-y

Type

Journal article

Publisher

BMC

Publication Date

31/01/2020

Volume

12

Addresses

https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-020-0584-y