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Digital technologies for the care of dementia sufferers

Digital technologies can make a valuable contribution to the care and support of people with dementia (PWD), offering potential for the individualization of care offerings. This is increasingly important in view of the growing differentiation of lifestyles in elderly care.

However, the identification of suitable content as well as the design and evaluation of high-quality care offerings is very labour-intensive and places high qualification demands on caregivers. Suitable individual content for PWD currently has to be identified "manually" and evaluated in terms of its suitability. In practice, therefore, a very limited pool of standard content is often used. Dynamic response to interaction with residents is also not possible with the tools currently available. Thus, the high-quality, biography-based individual activation and care (as opposed to mere occupation) required remains a major challenge, despite the extensive availability of digital content today.

In various subprojects, the DIDEM project will therefore develop and evaluate sound- and music-related interactive media and AI-supported approaches to the use of digital technologies in the care of people with dementia, focusing on their quality of life and family caregivers. The technical development projects are carried out in a participatory approach with users and accompanied by nursing science.

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  • Challenge to individualise digital care offerings The identification of suitable content, and the design and evaluation of digital care offerings, places high demands on caregivers in terms of time and knowledge.
  • New approaches to use of digital technologies Sound- and music-related interactive media and AI-supported approaches to the use of digital technologies are being developed and evaluated, in collaboration with users and caregivers.
  • AI-supported interactive media for individual care The aim is to make high-quality, biography-based individual activation and care possible, providing dynamic response to interaction with people with dementia.

Project partners

  • Care and Technology Lab
  • Institute for Data Science, Cloud Computing and IT Security
  • Faculty of Digital Media

The project will be carried out in cooperation with several associated practice and transfer partners in the region.

Funding

The project is funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation as part of the Transfer programme.

 

  • DIDEM (I66)