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| December 2002 How to obtain the ENABLE products? Many write to us to ask where to buy the products we show on this web site. Under Technology in the menu, we have now added contact addresses or web sites for all the devices that are, or are going to be available. If you have trouble getting in contact with any of them, please tell us, and we will try to help you. |
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| December 2002 Kaunas University of Medicine in Lithuania will start working in the ENABLE project early 2003, when the contract amendment is signed. A national workshop will be organised, and the consortium meeting is held in Lithuania in March 2003. |
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| October 2002 The Mid term review of the progress of the project was held in Bath in October 2002. Professor Mary Marshall was the evaluator on behalf of the European Commission. Prior to the review she had received and read an extensive amount of documentation from the project, and took part in the consortium meeting and discussions that took place for the two days preceding the review. The review triggered many interesting discussions, and the consortium found these very constructive and useful. Professor Marshall gave a very favourable review of the work and potentials of the project, and many wise suggestions for our further work. |
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| September 2002 Mandy Brady, London, sent us the following encouraging comment: “I have just looked at the “enable” site through your link and am very impressed and delighted to see that there are such products being developed for sufferers of dementia. The locator for lost items looks wonderful, and so easy to use. Please do let me know when it becomes available on the market – we have 8 sets of door keys lost in my mother’s house! Such an item would prevent further “losses” and give great peace of mind and less anxiety to my mother!” |
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| September 2002 The Norwegian Ministry of Social Affairs has just made a proposition for a new law concerning ethical issues in relation to people with dementia. It includes the use of technology for safety purposes, and recommendations around the use of monitoring and alarm systems. Comments to the law were called for before 1 September 2002, and we expect a wide, public discussion about the legal situation of people with dementia before the law is passed. |
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| 04-July-2002 ENABLE presented at the RESNA Conference ENABLE presented at the RESNA Conference in Minneapolis, US. Petrina Duff presented ENABLE at RESNA 2002. The presentation created great interest and many questions about how to get the products, the trials, etc. The paper is now published in the proceedings from RESNA: Proceedings of the RESNA 25th International Conference. Technology and Disability: Research, Design, Practice and Policy. Simpson, R. (ed). Arlington: RESNA Press. |
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| July-2002 Journal of Dementia Care writes about ENABLE Vol 10 No 1 Jan/Feb 2002 includes an article about the ENABLE project. The article, pp26 to 28, is written by Inger Hagen, who is scientific co-ordinator of the ENABLE project. It gives a good overview of the background and the issues in the project. We will write regular updates to this journal, because it is a high quality journal that reaches a large, engaged and interested audience, also those who do not use the web to keep updated. |
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| June-2002 New Partner We are happy to announce that the project now has a new partner: Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania. Because of this new partner, we plan to extend the duration for the project with six months, until the end of August 2004. More news about the new partner later this summer. |
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May-2002 Extensive work has been carried out in order to ensure quality of the research and to comply with ethical issues in the trials. |
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| 01-Feb-2002 Handicap ENABLE will participate at the annual exhibition and conference Handicap 2002, in Oslo 23., 24. and 25. April. The ENABLE products will be exhibited at Stand no BA 23, which is funded by the IT Funk activity in the Norwegian Research Council. At the conference, the Norwegian project participants will organise a workshop about the project and about dementia as a handicap, and also be present at a "Speakers Corner" to tell about the project. |
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| 01-Feb-2002 Protocol for product assessment The protocol for the assessment study of the products in ENABLE will be ready for the first trials to start in March 2002. Extensive work has been carried out in order to ensure research quality and comply with ethical issues in the assessment studies that are going to take place in all four partner countries. Five products will be tried in all countries:
In addition some optional products will be tried in each country. In UK and Ireland, this will be the Cooker monitor. In Norway it will be Medicine reminder and Remote day planner. In Finland the trials of the Picture gramophone will be wider, in day care centres as well as private homes. |
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| 30-Jan-2002 Stakeholder workshop in Oslo On 30 January 2002, 44 participants from the care sector, family carers, therapists, regional centres for assistive technology, National Insurance Agency, Research Council of Norway, suppliers and researchers met for the first national ENABLE workshop in Oslo. The topics covered were:
The participants showed large interest and the discussion was lively. They expressed awareness that there is a need for more information about potentials of assistive technology for people with dementia, and some new ideas came up. Many of the participants had been in contact with the project in focus groups and earlier presentations. Others were present for the first time. The group expressed that they wanted to follow the project actively and wanted to come to the next national workshop, where discussions about the preliminary results of the trials will be amongst the main topics. It was also obvious that they wanted to download reports and papers from this web site as they become available. |
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| 14-Jan-2002 Consortium meeting and ENABLE Stakeholder workshop in Helsinki march 11-13. |
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| 14-Jan-2002 Methodology and protocol for user assessment of the ENABLE products is in its final discussion phase in January 2002. Assessment studies to start in March 2002 and go on for up to one year in the four partner countries. |
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| 03-Oct-2001 The Journal of Dementia Care in UK has organised an excellent conference on dementia in Dublin 26 and 27 September. The Irish Action Plan on Dementia is a good example of how to make progress in improving the lives of people with dementia. At the conference there were interesting presentations and discussions about the importance of co-ordinating the efforts of biomedical, pshycological and social science professionals, as well as technological developments and other related areas of work. The ENABLE project was presented and received positive feedback. There was general agreement that it is vitally important to raise the general awareness of all the positive developments in the care of people with dementia, not just the sad stories that the press tends to present. |
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| 01-Oct-2001 From now on general practitioners in Norway can prescribe dementia specific medicine if they have experience with dementia patients. Earlier the prescription had to be made by a specialist, which meant that it was much more difficult to get. |
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| 24-Sep-2001 September 21was World Alzheimer Day, and there were extensive arrangements going on all over the world. Issues around the needs of people with dementia are slowly coming on the agenda, but we still have a lot of work ahead! |
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| 14-Sep-2001 ENABLE was presented at the big AAATE conference in Ljubljana 3-6 September, and created attention to technology and people with dementia. The EC invited Inger Hagen to present the project as part of the Quality of Life programme. After her presentation she was interviewed by a Slovenian newspaper who found her paper very interesting. The paper can be seen in the AAATE proceedings or by contacting Inger Hagen, at post@ihagen.no |
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| Enabling products for persons with dementia | ||||
| This is the web site of an exciting research project which is aimed at "marrying the new with the familiar" when developing and introducing new technology to people with dementia and their carers. |
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| The project aims at facilitating independent living of people with early dementia and to promote their wellbeing through access to enabling systems and products. Pleasure, memory support, entertainment and own activity are key words in the project. The project is funded under the EC Programme Quality of Life and living resources, and will last for three years, starting in March 2001. | ||||
| Five countries, wide experience | ||||
| The partners are situated in England, Ireland, Finland, Lithuania and Norway, are interdisciplinary and have wide experience in dementia care and research, technology development and human factors. | ||||
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