Objective The challenging aim of our three-year STREP proposal is to breakthrough with research that addresses the needs of those with dementia, particularly those with mild dementia in Europe. At about 2% of the elderly population, this comes to around 1,900,000 people. In order to achieve our aim, this means helping people navigate through their day. This entails cognitive reinforcement and may be expressed as the social objectives of our research for the needs of people with dementia, helping people to remember, maintain social contact, perform daily life activities and enhance their feelings of safety.There are few studies where people with dementia themselves describe their needs, but those carried out indicate the most frequently identified unmet needs are in the areas of information (on treatment, care and support, appointments), memory problems, and communication and psychological distress. A key strength of our consortium lies in the strong participative involvement of world-class medical/clinical experts with significant track records in working closely with people with dementia, to relate these needs.Our core technological objective is to research and prototype a successful, near-to-market, portable, remotely-configurable, user-validated cognitive prosthetic device and associated services for people with mild dementia. The solution helps this group of people to navigate through their day, unobtrusively offering information and reassurance and allowing them to retain control over their daily life activities.That COGKNOW focuses on a solution that assists people with dementia to reinforce their daily life is fully in accord with Strategic Objective 2.5.11 on the development of innovative solutions for persons with cognitive disabilities, with a specifically stated aim to support the ageing population. Additionally, successful research results are critical in this area to address some of the fundamental challenges posed by the demographic changes. Fields of science medical and health sciencesbasic medicineneurologydementiamedical and health sciencesmedical biotechnologyimplants Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.5.11 - e-Inclusion Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL Address Calle emilio vargas 6 28043 Madrid Spain See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ACROSSLIMITS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Malta EU contribution € 0,00 Address Gateway centre, kappillan mifsud street HMR 10 Hamrun See on map GROUPE DES ECOLES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 46, rue barrault 75634 Paris 13 See on map LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 971 87 Lulea See on map MOBI SOLUTIONS OU Estonia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mugasto 1-8 51011 Tartu See on map NORRBOTTENS LANS LANDSTING Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Robertsviksgatan 7 norrbottens 97189 Lulea See on map STICHTING TELEMATICA INSTITUUT Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Brouwerijstraat 1 7523XC Enschede See on map THE QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address University road Belfast See on map UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUSET NORD-NORGE HF Norway EU contribution € 0,00 Address Sykehusveien 38 9038 Tromsoe See on map UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Cromore road Coleraine See on map Links Website Opens in new window VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address De boelelaan 1105 Amsterdam See on map Links Website Opens in new window
