The organization of Dementia Lab Conference 2025 is financed by national funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. under the scope of the following project references: ID+ R&D Unit – UIDB/04057/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04057/2020); CINTESIS R&D Unit –UIDB/4255/2020 and UIDP/4255/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04255/2020); and RISE – LA/P/0053/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0053/2020).

The Open Access publication of the Dementia Lab 2025 Proceedings is funded by the Alzheimer Nederlands, the Expertise Center Dementia & Technology within the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Stichting Alzheimer Onderzoek and the Expertisecentrum Dementie Vlaanderen. The participation of the keynote speaker Yuriko Saito was supported by FLAD (Luso-American Development Foundation).

The images on the landing page were gathered in design research processes involving people with dementia. Drawings by JC, a participant with dementia.