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Project Details


Keywords: [Dementia]
Name: Portrait System for Care Staff of People with Dementia
Start Date: 1st Apr 12
End Date: 30th Apr 13
Total Project Fund: 10,027UK Pounds
Background: Dementia is a growing concern worldwide, with an estimated 35.6 million people living with dementia. It has become recognised that current care solutions do not always meet the standard of care that people want for loved ones. The Portrait system is designed to help care staff see the whole person not simply as a set of service needs, but rather as an individual.
Description: The project focuses on care-givers, by addressing the need to facilitate conversations between care staff and residents. It is difficult for care staff, given limited time and skills, to initiate conversations with residents with communication difficulties arising from Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. The Portrait system provides an easy to use and quick means of getting information about the lives of residents before they entered the care home. It allows care staff to know who the people are.
Objective: To test multimedia portraits of care home resident presented on an easily and quickly accessible touch-screen interface. Each portrait will contain information about the person's family, key life events, preferences and hobbies or interests.
Progress: As of February 2013: the project has been running for less that a year, no current results available.
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Organisations Involved In This Project


The main contact(s) for this project are:

Organisation Name Type Tel Town Contact
School of Computing & Communications - Lancaster University
 Academic
 01524 510311
 Lancaster
 Dr Gemma Webster

Participants:

Organisation Name Type Tel Town Contact
School of Computing - University of Dundee
 Academic
 01382 385597
 Dundee
 Professor Vicki Hanson

Funding for this project includes a contribution from:

Organisation Name Type Tel Town
EPSRC - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
 Grant Making Body
 01793 444000/444100
 Swindon