Session D3

Session D3

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Session  D3

Working Title:

Home Care (informal and professional care)

Date:

27/09/2011 

Time:

14.30 – 16.00

Chair:

Vivianne Von Dollen, Secher Doheem, Luxembourg

Speakers:

Alexander Klapproth, iHome Lab Luzern, Switzerland

Margaret Ellis, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Massimiliano Malavasi, AIAS Bologna, Italy

Room:

Donatello

Session Content

Rationale

Whilst professional care services are indispensible in many cases, family care is the predominant model of support for older people today. However, demographic changes and individualized family structures will require new concepts of care, and  will therefore provide opportunities for new technological solutions in areas such:

  • Mobility within home, especially getting up from the bed, or a chair Personal hygiene
  • Daily meals / sufficient dietary nutrition
  • Access to toilet / incontinence
  •  Getting dressed, especially putting on socks and shoes