The benefits of Ayla – your CST Assistant featured in CareTech, the healthtech media for Danish healthcare professionals
Copenhagen, Denmark, 10 March 2025– Brain+ A/S (Nasdaq First North: BRAINP)
A new article in the Danish healthtech media, CareTech, features the benefits of Brain+’ Ayla – your CST Assistant to support group-based Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) to people with dementia. The article is written by professor Rikke Gregersen, VIA University College, who highlights the results from the Danish usability study of Ayla – your CST Assistant, conducted in 2024 in five Danish municipalities and showing extensive user satisfaction with the product. Expert validation is important to build customer awareness and interest, as adoption of CST is growing across Denmark and Brain+ continues its close collaborations with Danish municipalities, some of which are progressing towards contract renewals.
Brain+ A/S (“Brain+” or “the Company”), a pioneer in healthtech solutions for better dementia management, has obtained public dementia care professional recognition of Ayla – your CST Assistant, its first marketed dementia care product. The recognition is in the form of the product being featured in an article in CareTech, the Danish online healthtech media for healthcare professionals, titled “Kognitiv teknologi til mennesker med demens: Vi kan gøre hverdagen bedre” (Danish only).
The article is authored by Rikke Gregersen, Senior Associate Professor and Research Manager within dementia at VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark, who was instrumental to bringing Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) to Denmark, and is among the world’s leading experts in CST, being closely associated also with Professor Aimee Spector, University College London, who developed CST. Brain+ has been collaborating with Rikke for several years, including to insure that the CST content offered by Ayla – your CST Assistant is fully aligned with the CST principles and manual.
Simon Nielsen, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer in Brain+ commented on the article: “Validating articles in profession care magazines and journals, written by reputable experts and key opinion leaders is one of the important ways in which Ayla is gaining wider recognition among its potential customer and user base as a relevant tool to deliver CST efficiently and at scale”
In the article’s review of available cognitive technologies, the results from the 2024 usability study of Ayla – your CST Assistant, which was conducted during H1 2024, are highlighted:
- 90% of users found that the CST programs run with Ayla went well or excellent
- Users found Ayla was easy to use in preparation and in running the CST sessions
- Especially newly trained CST therapists found that using Ayla reduced their preparation time and provided support during delivery of the CST sessions.
The results demonstrate the benefits of Ayla – your CST Assistant and align with the purpose of the product, which is developed as a cost-effective solution to scale CST delivery across health and care sectors and allow more people living with dementia access to this clinically validated dementia therapy.
The CareTech article also looks into the future for dementia healthtech, in which digital platforms like Brain+’ Ayla is expected to play a pivotal role in bringing clinically validated dementia care and treatment to those in need.
Because of recent restructuring measures and a commercial focus on the much larger and more CST mature UK dementia market, Brain+ does not currently have the resources to do active sales outreach in Denmark. Still, with growing adoption of CST in Danish dementia care, existing customer dialogues and implementation work within the CO-PI project ongoing, it is expected to see additional Danish sales of Ayla – your CST Assistant.
About CareTech (Forsiden | CareTech (PRO))
CareTech is a Danish online healthtech media aimed at private and public healthcare professionals; users, decision-makers, developers and specialists, who are working with health and welfare technology in Denmark. CareTech writes about the digital and technological solutions that meet the growing need for interventions and aids for health, care, nursing and self-reliance.
As the number of chronically ill people increases and the population ages, the pressure on both the health and social sectors increases. Changing expectations from citizens and the need for savings in the public sector create a great need for digital and technological solutions for care, nursing, prevention and self-reliance. This raises corresponding demands for improving the skills and knowledge of professional users and decision-makers in the healthcare sector, and the motivation for CareTech is to help meet this demand.
CareTech is part of the Danish technology media house, Ingeniøren.
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Brain+ vision: Building the world’s first scalable dementia care platform to help people affected by dementia, live better lives