08.00-10.00

Registration, coffee/tea and cake

10.00-11.00

Chairs:  Sidsel Bjørneby & Petrina Duff

Opening Session 
- Knut Engedal, ENABLE co-ordinator
- Gesa Hansen, European Commission
- Jean Georges, Executive Director in Alzheimer Europe
- Sigurd Sparr, Head of the Dementia Association of Norway

11.00-11.30

Meeting the needs of people with dementia and their carers
Mary Marshall, Professor, Dementia Services Development Centre, Stirling University, Scotland

11.30-11.45

Break

11.45-12.15

Presenting the ENABLE Project
Inger Hagen, PhD, scientific co-ordinator in the ENABLE-project

12.15-13.15

Lunch

13.15-14.15

Exhibition and poster presentations (number 1 – 7)

14.15-14.55

14.55-15:10

15.10-15.50

15.50-16.10

Chairs: Torhild Holthe & Jane Gilliard

Designing technology for people with dementia
User requirements: “Marrying the familiar with new technology”
Sidsel Bjørneby, OTR, consultant and partner in the ENABLE-project

Break

The design process
Roger Orpwood, Director of Bath Institute of Medical Engineering, and partner in the ENABLE-project

Designing products for entertainment and pleasure:
Do-it-Yourself Picture Gramophone
 Päivi Topo, PhD, Director of Research, STAKES and partner in the ENABLE-project

16.10-16.30

Hearing the voice of persons with dementia
Video from use of the Picture Gramophone

18.00

Boat tour on the Oslo fjord with buffet dinner (optional)

09.00-09.45

Chairs: Inger Hagen & Jurate Macijauskiene

Ethical dilemmas in dementia care and use of technology
Anneli Sarvimäki, Director of research, Age Institute, Finland

09.45- 10.15

Experiences in project on informed consent, ethical dilemmas and  procedures 
Kerry Jones, MSc, Research officer Dementia Voice and research officer in the ENABLE-project

10.15-10.30

Break

10.30-11.15

Assessing Quality of Life of People with Dementia
Meryl Brod, President of  The Brod group, USA

11.15-12.00

Quality of life aspects of using the DQoL quality of life scale in ENABLE, how did it work?
Suzanne Cahill, PhD, Director of Dementia Services Information and Development Centre in Dublin, and partner in the ENABLE-project

12.00-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.00

Exhibition and poster presentations (number 8 – 13)

14.00-14.45

Chairs: Knut Engedal &  Suzanne Cahill

Economic challenges for the society caring for people with dementia
Eamon O´Shea, Senior lecturer, National University of Ireland

14.45- 15.15

The socio-economic costs and benefits of the ENABLE technologies: Methodology and results
Petrina Duff, MSc, Senior research consultant WRC, Dublin and partner in the ENABLE-project

15.15-15.30

Break

15.30-15.45

Hearing the voice of a carer
Experience of participating in the project
Doris Martinsen, family carer

15.45-16.45

Chair: Sigurd Sparr, Head of Norwegian Dementia Association

Implications for policy and practice
Panel and plenary discussion:

Panel:    Jean Georges
              Eamon O’Shea
              Meryl Brod
              Mary Marshall
              Anneli Sarvimäki
              Richard Humphries
              Britt Hildeng

18.00- 19.30

Reception hosted by Oslo City in the City Hall (Oslo Raadhus)

9.00 – 9.25

9.25 – 9.50

9.50 – 10.15

10.15 – 10.30

10.30 – 11.00

11.00 – 11.20

Chair: Roger Orpwood & Aase-Marit Nygaard

Can technology help people with dementia?
Results from user assessments in each of the 5 countries

Researching dementia: A practical approach to inclusion
Emer Begley, MSc, Research officer, Dementia Services Information and Development Centre in Dublin and research officer in the ENABLE-project

The importance of making  user needs analysis
Torhild Holthe, OTR, consultant Norwegian Centre for Dementia Research and Research officer and partner in the ENABLE-project

Assessment of using a Picture Gramophone in day care centres
Päivi Topo, PhD Director of Research, STAKES and partner in the ENABLE-project

Break

Can technology help people with dementia and their carers?
Results of quantitative analysis
Jura Macijauskiene, MD, PhD, Senior lecturer Kaunas Medical University and partner in the ENABLE-project

Case stories: Cross cultural experiences of assistive devices
Kerry Jones, MSc, Research officer Dementia Voice and research officer in the ENABLE-project

11.20-11.45

Comparing the experiences
Inger Hagen, ENABLE

11.45-12.00

Presentation of poster price
Päivi Topo

Concluding remarks
Knut Engedal