Zero burden, sustainable technologies to support independent living with dementia.
What we do
Collaborate
Connecting clinicians, engineers, researchers, carers, and people with dementia. We bring together people with lived experience, carers, clinicians, researchers, and industry partners to share knowledge and work side by side.
Innovate
We create space for new ideas, co-designing technologies that are simple, sustainable, and designed to fit into everyday life.
Accelerate
We provide funding and support to help promising ideas get off the ground, turning concepts into real-world solutions that improve lives.
Pioneering a new network
The ZeDTech Network is a growing UK-wide community of researchers, clinicians, industry partners, and people with lived experience of dementia. Together, we are working to design and deliver sustainable, low-burden technologies that support independence, dignity, and quality of life.
We connect people and organisations across the UK to share knowledge, co-produce solutions, and test new approaches in real-world settings. Our focus is on creating technologies that fit seamlessly into daily life, reducing disruption while improving care, communication, and wellbeing.
By bringing together lived experience, academic expertise, and innovation from industry and the third sector, ZeDTech aims to improve quality of life for people with dementia and their carers, wherever they live.
Our principles
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'Zero burden' technologies
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Big data & machine learning/ AI
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Sustainable technology design
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Co-production in partnership
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Connecting across the UK
Our focus areas
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Supporting safe, independent movement.
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Helping people stay connected.
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Enabling independence with daily tasks.
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Simple, discreet tools to track wellbeing.
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Strengthening reassurance and social support.
“This is a really exciting opportunity that will bring together UK scientists and partners from health and social care, industry, third sector and lived experience, to develop new technologies that will help people affected by dementia to live independently for as long as possible.”
— Professor David Sharp, Co-lead of the ZeDTech Network
“Moving care out of hospitals and into communities isn’t just smart healthcare – it’s about giving people independence. Backing these groundbreaking technologies won’t just help people with dementia – it’ll transform their lives, giving people the freedom to stay in their own homes, around the people they love.”
— Minister of State for Health, Karin Smyth MP