Funding care for people with dementia and their families continues to be a challenge with a shared emphasis across the EU on enabling individuals to live well and safely at home and within their communities as long as possible. There is a...
Read more6 expert tips on interviewing people with dementia
by U-Sentric, User researchers can engage better in interviews with people with dementia by doing what should seem obvious: treating them like any other normal human being. In the Carelink AAL* project, U-Sentric and Akademie Berlingen have...
Read moreInside the Carelink Value Proposition Process
Around the third plenary meeting – held in the historic city of Leuven Belgium on 15./16 May 2018 – the business development group revisited and refined the Carelink Value Proposition. It is the aim of the project team to deliver a low-cost...
Read moreThe Carelink User Mapping Journey
From the outset, the Carelink team identified the importance of a user-centred approach as a core philosophical tenet of the design and development process. For this reason, a 2-sided approach to technology design and development planning has...
Read moreCarelink AAL second plenary meeting
“We have moved on from problem framing to problem solving.” Annita Beysen, u-sentric The second Carelink AAL consortium meeting took place in Smithfield, Dublin on 23/24 January. It was a very constructive and productive couple of days which is...
Read moreCarelink attends AAL Forum 2017
Carelink, represented by TSSG and UNINOVA, attended the AAL Forum 2017 in Coimbra, Portugal where there were nearly 600 attendees discussing the various advancements in the AAL domain with regards to research, industry and market potential. The...
Read moreCarelink Consortium meet in Lisboa
Carelink in a nutshell is an AAL project that has the aim of developing a cheap, robust, energy-efficient and suitable wearable tag that will help dementia patients and their carers solve the challenges associated with wandering, thereby...
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