A Dynamic Interactive Social Chart in Dementia CareAttuning Demand and Supply in the Care for Persons with Dementia and their Carers.
We-centric services may play an important role in the field of care and support for elderly persons with dementia and their carers. They may solve problems, such as fragmentation of care, gaps in the continuum of care and welfare services, and inefficient and uncustomized service delivery to patients and carers. In the FRUX Health Care pilot opportunities for we-centric, context-sensitive service bundles in the field of dementia care will be explored. The service on which we focus in this paper is a dynamic interactive social chart for dementia care (DEM-DISC). The feasibility of DEM-DISC will be investigated from a domain specific content perspective (needs, offerings, information and advice), an ICT perspective (ontology and application), a user perspective (persons with dementia, their carers and professionals/organizations), and an organisational perspective (necessary collaboration, governance and control, business modelling). A first demonstrator (validator) of the DEM-DISC will be designed, built and evaluated. Future possibilities to connect DEM-DISC to actual service delivery will be explored. In this paper we discuss the most important research questions from the different perspectives and the methods used to answer them.
Dröes
R M
RM
Dept. of Psychiatry, VU medical centre, Valeriusplein 9, 1075 BG Amsterdam, rm.droes@vumc.nl.
Meiland
F J M
FJ
Doruff
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C
Varodi
I
I
Akkermans
H
H
Baida
Z
Z
Faber
E
E
Haaker
T
T
Moelaert
F
F
Kartseva
V
V
Tan
Y H
YH
D017028:Caregivers; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003704:Dementia; D006801:Humans; D012946:Social Welfare