On 27-28 June, the Greek Alzheimer Association hosted the third transnational project meeting of the De-Sign Erasmus+ project in Thessaloniki. The objectives of the De-Sign project focus on promoting the full participation and social inclusion of deaf people by creating opportunities for equal access to dementia health services in Austria, Germany, Greece, and Italy by informing different groups of people involving deaf people as well as their family members, health professionals and the public. Moreover, a second objective is to adapt the first Cognitive Screening Test (CST), initially created by Atkinson et al. (2015), into the sign languages of Austria and Greece.
During the meeting, participants presented their work about the raising awareness training material delivered in deaf communities in their countries, whereas the CST in Austrian and Greek sign languages was also presented through a digital platform. The forthcoming year training about the use of the platform will be also delivered among health professionals, while normative data about the first CST in Austrian and Greek sign languages will be published to facilitate dementia detection in deaf older adults.
