This project will develop a user-friendly approach formed by AI tools and human elements (cognition, intelligence, perception, senses and value, etc.) to provide smart care solutions for people with dementia.
The QoLEAD (Quality of Life by use of Enabling AI in Dementia) project aims to bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and warm care for people with dementia. In QoLEAD the focus is on the quality of life of people with dementia and their environment. Together with them, researchers will work on solutions to their challenges and wishes in important areas of life such as social contact, safety, meaning and personal autonomy.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be helpful in this regard, as it can learn and adapt to different people in different contexts. In this way, AI can gradually better support people and increase their well-being. Consider, for example, tools that help people with memory problems to remember everyday things, or a navigation aid that gets to know and intuitively maps important locations in the immediate vicinity of a person with dementia.
An important goal of the project is to bring people from the healthcare and AI worlds together. We want to bridge the gap between healthcare professionals who know everything about dementia and researchers who understand algorithms. Our intention is that together, in a process of co-creation and co-design, we will look for solutions that really work. Artificial intelligence is a means and not an end in itself – it does not necessarily always offer the only or best solution. We look at what people with dementia need, both at home and in a care environment. In addition, we take into account how healthcare professionals work in practice and which technical innovations best suit their work.
The QoLEAD project is funded under the highly competitive NWO/ZonMW KIC Program “Living with dementia”.
