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A computer program that helps dementia sufferers
Software shows dementia patient’s biography
A Dundee PhD student has developed a computer program that helps dementia sufferers communicate with their carer.
Dr Gemma Webster, 25, created software that holds a “multimedia biography” of the patient which carers can access through a touchscreeen.
The computing researcher said it would help busy care staff learn about the people they were looking after.
Research Councils UK has awarded Dr Webster £10,000 to help promote her “Portrait” project.
The software holds a digital timeline of key events in a patient’s life, along with a family tree and other personal information.
I’m to live as a prisoner in my own home
Carers will visit throughout the day to dress, wash and feed me and put me to bed at night. I am expected to use a commode which will stay in my living room, the only room I am now allowed to occupy.
I celebrated my 93rd last week, in respite care.
I ended up here after a short stay in hospital a few months ago. I’m not sure what happened. I told them I was getting old, I didn’t feel well and my legs wouldn’t support my weight.
They talk a lot about me, I have been to a lot of meetings recently. I can’t remember what they are about. My family have been there and they explain what is going on, but I don’t understand it all. I don’t listen to it all.
People with dementia missing out on direct payments
The government wants everyone receiving social care to be offered a personal budget by 2013
Published 17 November 2011
More than three quarters of people with dementia who receive social care support at home are not using direct payments or other personal budgets.
This is despite government plans to roll them out to all people using social care services. As it launches its new report ‘Getting personal? Making personal budgets work for people with dementia’, Alzheimer’s Society is calling for the personal budget system to be adapted to meet the specific needs of people with dementia
