Wandering Technology for Dementia Care


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Creator/Artist: Subhalakshmi Govindaraj

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P1 Project

Batch: 2016-2020

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Simon Robinson


Detailed Description

This report describes the research method tailored for people who take care of people with dementia. It also talks about how globalisation has affected our health care system and how everyone can get affected by it. This project includes research insights from interviews with various caretakers from the Alzheimer’s Society, UK, from both Swansea and London, and focuses on trying to achieve an effective way to help people support the initial stages of dementia without interfering with the patient’s everyday routine. Overpopulation is common in the 21st century, and while there are increasing digital-driven health care solutions and cures, there is also no increase in new diseases being identified. Dementia is rather common these days among older people, though there is currently no cure for dementia as such. Researchers have aimed to find cures for dementia-causing diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia. It is a syndrome during which there's deterioration of memory, thinking, behaviour, and therefore the ability to perform everyday activities.