Service: Smart Dementia project

Responsible organisation: Tante Louise (Local Government)

The eHealth technology (a wristwatch and app with which the whereabouts of the patients can be traced) is used to provide elderly people with Alzheimer more freedom. The technology enables the nurses and the institution to trace the elderly better, thus giving them more freedom to move around. The technology fits in a policy of the organisation to work with life cycles. This means that a team decides how much freedom a specific patient can have. The aim is to grant as much freedom as possible, given the patient health and mental situation. If people can move around more, they stay fit longer both physically and mentally, the organisation argues. The organisation also emphasizes that the ICT tool is above all a supportive tool and that the most important element still is the (risk) assessment of the patient. The eHealth innovation was an example of how such technologies can support health professionals, as personal health data is collected, stored and communicated between relevant stakeholders. In general, in health technology, patient data is used to provide more precise and personalized health care (e.g. personalized interventions, predicating and preventing diseases). In this specific case of health technology, a mobile device, mobile sensor, and wearables were used to increase the health and wellbeing of users. This device with sensor technology helps Alzheimer patients to walk around more freely again in a nursing home and outside the nursing home through GPS tracking, which would otherwise be impossible for those suffering from dementia. In that sense, the ICT technology is important and vital for the innovation.

Additional information

Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://tropico-project.eu/cases/administration-costs-for-bureaucracy/smart-dementia-project-the-netherlands/
Start/end date 2021 -
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