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 driven by the following partners: Amsterdam Innovation Motor, Amsterdam Living Lab, The Digital Life Centre of the UvA & HvA, Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Flevoland bv, Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Amsterdam, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Vivium Zorggroep Naarderheem, Vilans, Dutch Game Garden en Taskforce Innovatie Regio Utrecht.

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.

Care for tomorrow is funded through the 'Pieken in de Delta' program by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the cities of Utrecht and Lelystad and the provinces of Utrecht, Noord-Holland and Flevoland.

For more information, please contact Martijn Kriens at or Judith Raaijmakers at