RESOURCES
Useful sources of information.
Project Public Deliverables:
2.1 Accessibility Report
Documents compiling impact of users’ medical condition on their ease of using SMART4MD, together with adaptation measures to improve accessibility for users.
2.3 Focus group Reports
A summary of all end-users (patient, carers and healthcare professionals), collating the focus groups’ feedback on the phases of platform development and presenting a user-informed specification for the platform.
3.3 SMART4MD Enabled Tablets Platform Demonstrator
Document that describes the composition and functionalities of the SMART4MD Platform
6.1 SMART4MD Project Website
Description of the core project website. used for dissemination of project results and all other public deliverables.
7.11 Management Report 1
Half-yearly report, April 2015-October 2015, summarising the project’s progress, difficulties experienced, mitigation measures taken and lessons learned.
7.12 Management Report 2
Half-yearly report, October 2015 – April 2016, summarising the project’s progress, difficulties experienced, mitigation measures taken and lessons learned.
7.13 Management Report 3
Half-yearly report, April 2016 - September 2016, summarising the project’s progress, difficulties experienced, mitigation measures taken and lessons learned.
7.14 Management Report 4
Half-yearly report, October 2016 - March 2017, summarising the project’s progress, difficulties experienced, mitigation measures taken and lessons learned.
7.15 Management Report 5
Half-yearly report, April 2017 - September 2017, summarising the project’s progress, difficulties experienced, mitigation measures taken and lessons learned.
Project Publications:
The Effects of the Digital Platform Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia (SMART4MD) for People With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Their Informal Carers: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Objective: A digital platform (Support Monitoring and Reminder for Mild Dementia; SMART4MD) is created to improve or maintain the quality of life for people with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI) and their carers. The platform will provide reminders, information, and memory support in everyday life, with the purpose of giving structure and lowering stress. In the trial, we will include participants with a diagnosed neurocognitive disorder as well as persons with an undiagnosed subjective memory problem and cognitive impairment, that is, 20 to 28 points on the Mini-Mental State Examination.
Designing a model app for older persons with cognitive impairment - insights from a usability perspective. Gerontechnology 2018; 17 (Suppl): 79s
The result indicates that less exposure to similar technology affects both ability and self-esteem when confronted with the model app, and that evaluating usability with the target group using standard forms within usability testing requires pre-cautions.
SMART4MD is developing an app to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers. Alzheimer Europe Magazine issue 25, p12-13.
In this project, we are building on an innovative patient support tool to develop an mHealth (mobile health) application that is specifically targeted at people with mild dementia. The tool will help users adhere to their treatment and share data with their carers and doctors; carers will use the same application to monitor their changes more easily and share information about their own well-being with doctors. We believe this will help improve independence and promote a better quality of life for people with mild dementia and help avoid carers getting exhausted, as well as reducing costs of emergency care.
More than 300 hundred of people with dementia and their carers will participate in a clinical trial. Canal Sur, 20/09/2017.
In total, 350 people with mild dementia and their carers will participate in a clinical trial which aims to validate a tablet application, distributed among people and their carers thanks to a European project, boosting application of new information and communication to improve access, care and well-being of people with dementia and their families.
