Improving the Lives of People with Dementia Through Technology: Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology

This book explores the practical application of recent improvements in technology for people living with dementia and highlights the positive outcomes on care, quality of life, and services on patients through exploration of 15 research projects to redefine the future of dementia care.

Using research compiled in collaboration with leading universities and organisations across Europe, this book demonstrates how INDUCT’s (Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Utilising Current Technology’s) findings resulted in implications for practical cognitive and social factors to improve the usability of technology, evaluating the effectiveness of specific contemporary technology, and tracing facilitators and barriers for implementation of technology in dementia care.

Featuring a unique training programme along with a wide range of patient-public involvement, this state-of-the-art volume will be essential reading for researchers, academics and scholars in the fields of dementia and mental health research, gerontology, psychology and nursing.

Martin Orrell is Director of the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Déborah Oliveira is Lecturer and Researcher on long-term care, dementia, and stigma, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile.

Orii McDermott is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Frans R. J. Verhey is Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry/ Neuropsychiatry at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Fania C. M. Dassen is Project Manager at the Alzheimer Center Limburg, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Rose-Marie Dröes is Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Care for people with dementia and head of the research group ’Care and support in dementia’ at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam University Medical Centers, the Netherlands.