Under the CO-PI granted project, Brain+ has held the first CST-Assistant training sessions to test the integration of the product with the formal CST education in
Denmark The objective is to establish a new CST-education standard, which includes in depth introduction to and hands-on training in the CST-Assistant to facilitate an easier transition from education to CST practice
Educating new CST therapists based on the CST-Assistant is an important gateway for greater customer reach and a key step towards a complete Brain+ full-service CST offering
Dialogue with
UK stakeholders to develop a similar combined education program has begun based on the Danish model
Brain+ has started testing the integration of the CST-Assistant with the formal Danish education of new Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)-therapists. Only trained therapists can deliver CST in accordance with the certified CST manual from the
The objective of the new CST-education is to introduce new CST therapists to the CST-Assistant and include hands-on user practice to deliver CST based on the product. The intention is to make it easier for newly educated CST therapists to start delivering CST to people with dementia after having received the education.
"Integrating the CST-Assistant with the formal CST education will introduce our product and its offerings to newly educated CST therapists upfront as an important milestone for broader customer reach. It is also an important step towards building a full service offering of our services that will strengthen Brain+' position as a preferred supplier of evidence-based CST as a service (aaS) to health care systems."
The new combined CST-education has been co-developed by Brain+ and
The feedback from both the CST therapists from
Towards improved customer reach and a more complete service offering
The CST-Assistant significantly lowers barriers for new sites to start implementing the CST method into their dementia management practice, and for those already offering CST to scale their offering. The product provides readily available access to a large library of customizable CST content for each of the 14 sessions in the therapeutic program, which has been developed and validated together with world leading CST experts. Findings have shown that the CST-Assistant saves on average 50% of preparation time before a CST-session. A newly educated CST therapist can in addition save an estimated 20-40 hours of initial start-up preparation time for the first
Because of the way the CST-Assistant enables CST delivery at scale, introducing the product at the point where new CST therapists are educated, is an important factor to broaden the implementation of CST practice more broadly. This is the view from several CST experts and CST Trainers of Trainers in both
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