Unmet-needs discovery
Listening closely to identify problems that matter in daily care, access, research, and coordination.
Our priorities
From unmet need to measurable progress
Innovation
Creating a disciplined path for promising ideas to be co-designed, tested, evaluated, and shared.
In development
IDCC is building this area thoughtfully with qualified partners and people whose lives are affected by dementia.
Our approach
Purposeful work, shaped by evidence and lived experience.
Innovation may be a new tool, service, partnership, workflow, or way of reaching people who have been overlooked. The strongest ideas begin with a clearly understood problem and grow through evidence, iteration, and accountability.
IDCC plans to serve as a bridge among families, practitioners, researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders. We will prioritize solutions that address meaningful needs, complement existing systems, and can be evaluated before anyone makes claims about impact or scale.
What we will focus on
Four commitments guiding this priority.
Each focus area will be developed with clear objectives, appropriate expertise, and meaningful community input.
Co-design
Developing ideas with people living with dementia, care partners, professionals, and community organizations.
Pilot and evaluation
Setting clear goals, testing in realistic settings, learning quickly, and reporting results honestly.
Responsible scale
Documenting the conditions, resources, and safeguards needed for others to adapt a promising model.
Programs we are shaping
Building the foundation before the launch.
These initiatives are planned concepts, not yet active services. Their design, timing, and scope will depend on expert review, partnerships, community input, and funding.
Innovation challenges
Focused invitations for ideas addressing a clearly defined dementia-care need.
Seed and pilot support
A future mechanism for helping selected teams test feasible, mission-aligned concepts.
Demonstration partnerships
Real-world settings where collaborators can evaluate implementation and usefulness.
Impact framework
Common questions and measures for assessing benefit, burden, equity, feasibility, and risk.
Who this work is for
Designed around people, not programs.
Families and care partnersResearchersEntrepreneursDesigners and technologistsCare organizationsFunders
Build this with us
Partnership makes the work stronger.
We are interested in partners who combine imagination with rigor—especially teams willing to co-design with end users, define evidence early, and share what does and does not work.
Trusted starting points
Explore authoritative resources.
While IDCC develops its own reviewed materials, these public resources offer credible information and pathways for learning.
IDCC does not provide medical diagnosis or treatment. Information on this site is educational and does not replace advice from a qualified professional.
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