In this latest blog post, Swiss partner, Akademie Berlingen, a non-profit organisation discusses the need for new approaches to elder care. In Switzerland, as in other industrialized countries, the share of people in need of care in the resident...
Read moreSolving the Battery Power Challenge
Battery power has been one of the challenges that the Carelink hardware team (Uninova) has been trying to solve. It is critical that a tracking device will maintain power during a wandering incident to ensure that a loved one can be located. Some...
Read moreHavenwood Nursing Care Facility & Retirement Village: Impressions & Learnings
With an ambition articulated from the outset, to develop something that not just advances state of the art technically but that is relevant to end users and can achieve business impact, we welcomed the invitation from Havenwood to visit their...
Read moreGetting a dementia diagnosis can be problematic
In Ireland, an online dementia diagnosis service is due to be rolled out imminently by Videodoc, claiming to make a 30 minute diagnosis feasible. This has the potential to reduce the process from the months and even years currently involved...
Read moreFunding a continued challenge as Alzheimer’s Ireland makes pre-budget submission
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 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...
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