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Providing a good experience and service is important. StepUp for Dementia Research may contact you periodically to ask for your opinion, experience and feedback. StepUp for Dementia Research may email you polls or surveys about your experience; participation in these...

Researchers recruiting volunteers via StepUp for Dementia Research are asked to acknowledge the service for the support provided in their publications as follows: “StepUp for Dementia Research is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and implemented...

We encourage everyone who recruits volunteers from StepUp for Dementia Research to play a role in promoting the service and encouraging others to register. You can do this in many ways, e.g., by contributing to news stories, tweeting, and telling your colleagues,...

Yes. We encourage researchers to sign up as volunteers. If you would like to do this, please visit the volunteer sign up page; however please note that you cannot register using the same email address you use for your researcher account.

It is possible that the volunteers entered incorrect personal or health information. If you found that the volunteer information is out-of-date, please ask them to update their profile or inform StepUp admin. Please also note that the recruitment area is defined by...

Yes, once your study is on StepUp for Dementia Research, volunteers who match your study criteria will be able to see some information about the study. This information includes the organisation and researchers running the study and a lay summary. The local site...

Yes, your study information can be changed. To do this please contact StepUp for Dementia Research at stepup.research@sydney.edu.au.

When a study is entered on StepUp for Dementia Research, matching criteria are set based on the study’s selection criteria such as diagnosis, location, clinical information, age, and so on. After the matching algorithm has run, authorised research users on that study...

Yes. You can recruit for as many studies as you are involved in, as long as the studies are approved on StepUp for Dementia Research and assigned to those studies within StepUp for Dementia Research.