Alzheimer’s Society’s 2025/26 accelerator programme has opened for applications, seeking products or services designed to make “an everyday task easier” for people living with dementia and technologies focusing on tackling challenges in the dementia pathway.
The accelerator offers a 12-month partnership with Alzheimer’s Society which includes up to £100,000 of funding; innovation and dementia support; opportunities to learn from people living with dementia; support during the application process; and peer-to-peer learning through the ‘Innovation Collective’, a community of topical experts providing advice and mentorship.
Through the programme, the charity’s innovation team will coordinate activity with successful applicants and work as their account partner, with support focusing on implementation
Applications are open to early stage businesses aiming to solve problems in this space; applicants should be able to demonstrate proof of concept and early product traction.
The deadline to apply is 6 December; click here for full details.
Dementia and digital
HTN previously reported how NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme and Alzheimer’s Society partnered to develop the Dementia Innovators programme, a pilot designed to explore ideas with the potential to support dementia care from professionals inside and outside the NHS.
We noted a multi-site study designed to test new wearable devices for the assessment of brain health and memory here.
And we also explored the dementia strategy from the Scottish Government spanning 2024-2026, outlining government commitments and the role of digital in achieving change in dementia care.
Funding support
We recently highlighted how the UK’s Centre for Process Innovation opened applications for a £4 million medtech fund designed to support SMEs in commercialising new products and meeting new regulatory requirements, with up to £30,000 available for successful applicants.
October also saw Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria and North East and North Cumbria ICB launch a new programme to support early-stage investment into innovations designed to address the gender gap in women’s health.
In other news, a number of new partnerships are set to be trialled in the UK which will see the NHS and the UK’s research and development base working alongside the private sector, with UK Research and Innovation announcing £118 million in funding to create five new hubs to help develop new health technologies.
