Update Best Practice Guidance 2022

Two large collaborative technology & dementia projects (INDUCT & DISTINCT) delivered many useful insights in the field of usability, effectiveness and implementation of technology in dementia. These are translated into recommendations in the Best Practice Guidance Human interaction with technology in dementia, and this Guidance has now been updated. The target groups are: people with dementia, their formal and informal carers, policymakers, designers and researchers. For this reason representatives of these target groups were consulted and involved throughout the INDUCT and DISTINCT projects.

Both projects were funded by the Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network. They focused on technology for people with dementia in three areas (everyday life, meaningful activities and healthcare). The main aim of INDUCT was to develop a multi-disciplinary, intersectorial educational research framework for Europe to improve technology and care for people with dementia, and to provide the evidence to show how technology can improve the lives of people with dementia. In DISTINCT, the main aim was to provide the evidence to show how technology can improve the social health of people living with dementia by enabling them to 1) fulfil their potential on a societal level, 2) manage their own life and 3) participate in social and meaningful activities.

The Best Practice Guidance can be accessed here.