Project title: Special Considerations in the Assessment and Treatment of Geriatric Patients
Country: Sweden
Anchoring institution: Adult Psychiatry Hässleholm, Region Skåne
Dates running: 2026
Status: Ongoing
Project description
Sweden has, with an increasingly elderly population, a growing need for better training on cognitive, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders in older adults. Much of the assessment and treatment of dementia, neurodegenerative disease, delirium, and late-life mental ill-health happens outside specialist clinics. GPs diagnose and manage roughly half of dementia cases, and access to dedicated old-age psychiatry services is limited. When symptoms overlap across psychiatry, general practice and internal medicine, older patients can be misdiagnosed, under-assessed, or bounced between services.
This project will deliver a targeted educational course for trainee doctors in general practice, psychiatry and internal medicine, strengthening practical competence in recognising and managing cognitive, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders in older adults, and improving collaboration across care pathways for patients with complex comorbidities.
Success will be evaluated through participant feedback on satisfaction and educational value, with the goal of securing regional funding to scale the course further and sustain improved education within geriatric neurology.
About Neurotorium’s Clinical Education Grants
Neurotorium is offering Clinical Education Grants to support non-profit educational projects aimed at strengthening clinical competencies within the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric and neurological disorders through educational activities aimed at healthcare professionals.
Applicants can request up to 100,000 DKK (approximately $15,000 USD) per year for a duration of one to three years. The budget can only include direct costs. Projects must incorporate Neurotorium’s educational resources, be anchored within established non-commercial organizations (such as universities, hospitals, or NGOs), and demonstrate potential to positively impact clinical practice.
