Good dementia care is important because it can improve the quality of life of people with dementia. Care for people with dementia should be person-centered, tailored to what a person needs in daily life, including…
Category: Research
The Digital Care Knowledge Base
The Knowledge Base Digital Care of Vilans is the central platform where healthcare professionals and educational institutions can find reliable and up-to-date information about digital care. From practical experiences to value-determining research and implementation tools…
BIND
With the increasing aging population and the growing shortage of care personnel, innovation in dementia care is more urgent than ever. That is why, with a subsidy from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, the Business Desk Innovation and Technology in Dementia (BIND) is being established…
DEMTECH
We are proud to announce the launch of DEMTECH! This is a new collaborative program in which ECDT joins forces with UMCG, Alzheimer Nederland, Vilans, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, and Sara Robotics to work on innovative technologies that support people with dementia to…
Call for research into malnutrition in the elderly
For a study on malnutrition in the elderly, we are looking for elderly people living at home with nutritional care and their loved ones or informal caregivers. Are you or do you know someone who can talk or think about this? Then Isa…
The DIGIT project
Last month, the first workshop of the DIGIT project took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Researchers from Europe and beyond, including the ECDT, came together for an international study that followed the Alzheimer Europe conference. The project is led by…
Writing Retreat in the Ardennes
We ended the academic year '23-'24 inspired with our annual writing retreat. The Writing Retreat is a great opportunity to really retreat with our team and work together, read and write on research around technology for several days in a row…
Fan Wang about her PhD work
“During the first months of my PhD, I delved deeply into this topic through my participation in the HOMEDEM Training School at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where I met many researchers committed to improving the quality of life of…
Age-Fi DDW
Maarten Houben and Rens Brankaert from the ECDT were involved in the Age-Fi project, which could be seen and, above all, experienced at the Dutch Design Week in October. The installation was intended to get people to think about technologies that support aging at home in an interactive way, using dystopian videos.
Internship by Teis in Terneuzen
Our new PhD candidate, Teis Arets, tells about his experiences during his internship at SVRZ in Terneuzen. SVRZ is an expert in elderly care, and housing, care and well-being are nicely aligned. For someone who, apart from an experience with his own grandmother, had no experience in dealing with…
Inspiring speakers at mini-symposium
On November 1, Maarten Houben received his PhD cum laude for his thesis “Design for Everyday Sounds in Dementia”. After the promotion ceremony, three of the renowned committee members gave a lecture about their passion and work in the field of Dementia, Technology and Design during the mini-symposium organized by the ECDT (...)
ECDT leads QoLEAD
This project, called QoLEAD (Quality of Life by use of Enabling AI in Dementia), will bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and warm care for people with dementia. In QoLEAD the focus is entirely on the quality of life of people with dementia and their environment. Together with them we will work on solutions to their challenges and wishes in important areas of life such as social contact, safety, meaning and personal autonomy.