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.
