Latest updates · 21 October 2026
In the full issue →AI for ageing well gets fresh funding and clearer rules of the road: UMass Amherst and Mass General Brigham have won nearly $24.5 million to continue MassAITC, and dementia experts have set out what AI brain-scan tools need before they reach memory clinics.
Research, industry & policy
- UMass Amherst and Mass General Brigham win nearly $24.5M for MassAITC, UMass Amherst · 20 Oct 2026: The five-year continuation of the Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease will keep funding pilot projects in AI technology for elder care.
- Experts set out what AI brain-scan tools need to reach memory clinics, Dementia Researcher (NIHR) · 20 Oct 2026: A DEMON Network expert consensus gives eight agreed statements on what the tools are for, how they should be tested, how clinicians are brought on board and how patient data are handled.
Journals & preprints
- ITU-DESC: a missingness-aware machine-learning dementia risk score in the UK Biobank cohort, arXiv 2610.26604 · 19 Oct 2026: Background: Existing dementia risk scores rely on fixed, pre-selected features and linear models, or ignore bias from informative missingness in cohort data.
Conferences, workshops & events
- AI for Senior Living: Practical Tools, Compliance and Competitive Advantage, 18 Nov 2026 · Westerville, Ohio (Quest Conference Center): One-day in-person event on AI in senior-living operations.
- AI in Adult Social Care – Digital Communities of Practice webinars, 18 Nov – 16 Dec 2026 · Online: Free monthly webinars on 18 Nov and 16 Dec.
Why it matters
Hundreds of papers show AI can read brain scans; consensus standards are what move such tools into everyday dementia care.
