It was another exciting JAIN competition! With the help of a comprehensive jury, including people with dementia and family caregivers, I had to honour to announce the winners. In the prototype category, that is ... SVRZ! Their prototype concerns a lifestyle monitoring system, which has very interesting possibilities.
With information derived from sensors, one can gain insight into e.g. refrigerator usage, movement in and out of the house, and water consumption. A dashboard has also been developed, which gives clients and caregivers insight into lifestyle characteristics and trends. This information can be supportive for clients living at home with (early) dementia, caregivers and professionals.
There has been an initial pilot on usability and feasibility. The effectiveness needs further investigation. This application is not unique because there are more suppliers of lifestyle monitoring but it is good that another supplier will be added in the Netherlands: there will be more to choose from.
Bbrain was the winner in the products category! The Bbrain is a smart calendar clock on a tablet that stands with people with dementia and can support them
People with dementia found this helpful and very concrete. Especially if no informal caregivers are present, BBrain gives you a nice overview of the agenda, appointments and time. If informal caregivers are present then the advantage is that they have conversations about nicer topics than about appointments and what time it is. It also makes it easy to video call and thus maintain good contact with loved ones. The added value was seen especially for people who are not so digitally proficient or are already a bit further along in the dementia process.
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