Towards Personalised Dementia Care: Approaches, Recommendations and Tools from Design

According to Person-Centred Care, as far as possible, people with dementia should be cared for in a way that takes into account their personality, life experiences and preferences. Personalisation is hence the core of Person-Centred Care, yet the approaches, recommendations and tools are lacking for this purpose. Therefore, the author...

Blink: enabling caregivers to provide person-centred care: to increase the acceptance of the automatic toothbrush developed by Dental Robotics

The quality of oral care among frail elderly people in nursing homes is low. Due to reduced mobility or cognitive functioning, elderly people fail to complete the oral care ritual sufficiently. Once this happens, caregivers are obliged to take over this task. Unfortunately, in many cases this does not happen due to the difficulty of the task,...

Information and communication technology enabling partnership in person-centred diabetes management: Building a theoretical framework from an inductive case study in the Netherlands

Objectives The aim of this paper is to construct a theoretical framework for information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled partnership towards diabetes management. Design We conducted an inductive case study and held interviews on the development and use of an artificial pancreas (AP) system for diabetes management. Setting The study...