ALPACA Citizen Science Projects
Alpaca conducts projects with families to create positive aspects of care using citizen science research. Our aim is to develop methods that can be used by ordinary people and families at home that enhance wellbeing and relationships and enable people with to live meaningful and high quality lives even if they have dementia
Kobe CS Project
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ALPACA is staring and exploratory clinical trial collaboration with Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe University and Hyogo Medical University to develop a personalized intervention to prevent dementia for people diagnosed with MCI. The multicomponent intervention will include lifestyle and nutrition advice, exercise, brain training and social activities that are tailored to each person's needs and interests. The aim of this study is to create an intervention with people and MCI and their families that is effective and enjoyable and can be continuously used at home to prevent dementia and enhance family relationships
Become a citizen scientist!
Donate contents to use in our interventions
Most Alpaca:s research involves using cognitive stimulation to promote communication and doing enjoyable activities together. For this we use a diverse range of audiovisual contents based on people`s lived experience, such as homelife, food, local places, hobbies, travel, holidays, events, festivals, nature, seasons and Showa lifestyle. We are creating a library of these contents that can be used in our activities by families to create positive aspects of care. If you have any contents that you could donate or allow us to use, please contact us and we will get back to you
Donate to support our research
Although we try keep our costs to a minimum, and all participants in research and staff in Aikomi are volunteers, we need to raise some funds to support the cost of developing interventions and conducting our research. If you would like to donate to support our activities to enable positive aspects of care, please contact us.