Indoor Positioning and Fall Detection System Without Wearables: <redacted>

This thesis report, one of a set of two reports, describes a novel way to detect incidents that could occur in the daily life of the elderly. Unlike most systems already implemented in this field, this system does not use any wearable (positioning) sensors and works off an Single Board Computer (SBC).Independent of both of these systems is a...

Another Demansion: Insight into the life of people with Young Onset Dementia and their relatives in order to design a care home facilitating them in their well-being

Dementia is a familiar brain disorder, generally seen as a disease of the elderly and care homes are designed as such. However, also people between 30 and 65 can get dementia, called Young Onset Dementia and are overlooked now in architecture. Due to the different life stage in which the disease occurs, these mainstream facilities do not fit...

Dementia Care Center in Amsterdam

Saving energy in care homes through behaviour change

The thesis details the graduation project about saving energy in care homes through behaviour change. The project is part of a bigger project between TU Delft and Eneco, a Dutch energy company. Working towards their vision to provide their customers with services that help them save energy, Eneco invested in corporate customers to review and...

Architecture for the re-socialization of forensic psychiatric care: Building for the insane criminal

Architecture for forensic psychiatric care is about the fitted architecture for a specific target group which is in need of security AND a treatment environment. The research, partly literature, partly design, is focused on finding the best environment for these patients. The contracts between being locked down and feeling at home plays a...