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Care for tomorrow
User-oriented care solutions
Care is one of our biggest challenges for the future. Due to a greying population with elderly people that are increasingly demanding customers of health care, we need to invent user-oriented care solutions. Care for tomorrow (Zorgen voor Morgen) works, together with companies and knowledge institutions, on solutions that fit the elderly, their family and the care professionals.
Care for tomorrow is a program set up by Amsterdam Innovation Motor, Amsterdam Living Lab and The Digital Life Centre of the UvA/ HvA.
The program has three lines:
- a competence centre for innovation in care;
- establishment of a good practice guide for the use of ICT in care;
- several (living lab) pilot projects focussed on proof of concepts.
The pilotprojects are targeted around serious gaming concepts, a skills lab for competences of care employees and several smart living solutions. The program started the 1st of September 2009 and will run for 2,5 years.
The Digital Life Centre is involved in a project that helps elderly people to stay longer independent. In a living lab setting in a home for the elderly in Naarderheem new technology is tested and improved together with elderly people, professional staff and family. Amongst the solution is sensor technology that monitors daily activities of elderly people and can act as an early warning system for signs of dementia.
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