By Teuni Wolters (Alzheimer Nederland) & Karlijn van Rijen (QoLEAD) – 15-02-2024  On the 8th of February, more than 40 researchers spread across the country travelled to the Social Impact Factory – what’s in a name – for the DEMPACT… Read More »Past event: DEMPACT kick-off

Each newsletter will feature a microlearning: a short and quick learning activity with insights from our project partners. The micro-learnings will cover lessons from AI, care practice, design insights and more.

This first microlearning was provided by Vilans’ Henk Herman Nap and Dirk Lukkien, and tells us the three key insights for our QoLEAD community following from their recently published whitepaper ‘Wat gaat AI betekenen voor de ouderenzorg’:

SVRZ, a leading care organization in Zeeland, is teaming up with the academia in the QoLEAD project. They offer care and rehab for elderly, including those with dementia. SVRZ is working hard to connect academic ideas with real-world care challenges, hoping to put the latest knowledge into practice faster. Teis Arets, PhD candidate in QoLEAD, did an internship past summer with SVRZ to better understand the daily challenges caregivers face with people with dementia.

Read more about SVRZ’s perspectives on the project and how they experienced having an academic over in their care practice…

Anne Kolmans is one of the PhD’s working in QoLEAD. Teis Arets, a fellow PhD, interviewed her for this newsitem.

In this interview, Anne shares her journey from psychology to robotics and ultimately her PhD research at Radboud UMC about the social connectedness of people with dementia. Special is Anne’s early experience in elderly care, with a mother working in a nursing home: “we helped with bingo, delivering meals, and for example at Christmas celebrations”.

Anne’s research focuses on co-designing AI with people with dementia to improve social relationships. Her advice to fellow researchers: really get to know your target group.