CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD project aims to build a digital platform focusing on people living with dementia and their caregivers, considering this “dyad” as the unit of care and offering both a variety of advanced, individually tailored services that will improve the quality of their lives and enable them to live well in the community for as long as possible.
Accessible through friendly and easy-to-use interfaces for mobile phones, tablets and web browsers, the services of the CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD platform will include social networking with other people living with dementia, caregivers and clinicians, clinical and psychological screening, personalised care plan and educational interventions tailored to each user’s symptoms, medication reminder system and reporting to doctors and medical staff about treatment adherence level and other important clinical info. In order to enhance the involvement of end-users, gamification concepts and techniques such as storyboard characters, fun elements and rewarding schemes will be used.
The CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD platform offers multiple benefits for its users, such as personalised care plans combining medication and behavioural treatments for both people living with dementia and their caregivers, reduction of stress and burn-out phenomena of caregivers, discrete and constantly available monitoring of people living with dementia allowing fast adjustments to their care plan, efficient data collection of people living with dementia and caregivers by healthcare professionals, decision support for effective care plans and preventive interventions, as well as social networking. For the overall healthcare system, the adaptation of solutions such as the CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD platform is expected to contribute to the reduction of hospitalisations of people living with dementia and their caregivers, through delaying the need for entering care homes, reducing in this way the costs of care.
In order to demonstrate the CAREGIVERSPRO-MMD benefits for users and to prepare for the sustainable pan- European roll out of the platform, 4 large scale pilots will be carried out for 18 months in Spain, France, Italy and United Kingdom and several workshops will be organised throughout Europe, as well as a major conference, until the end of the project.
