Early 2020, the European AAL project MedGUIDE was successfully completed. The key challenge of the project was to support seniors suffering from dementia in improving medication adherence while at the same time improving the medication plans. MedGUIDE believes that smart technology and a social networking approach to healthcare will provide a solution that can benefit not only the patients, but also their (in)formal caregivers and their pharmacists. In the final review, the project received an excellent score. The Dutch consortium partners now started a national co-funded follow-up project which aims to validate the MedGUIDE polypharmacy and self-report services in close…

ConnectedCare, Dutch Postal Company PostNL and Movements Group have started a strategic collaboration. The three partners together initiated the community platform HLTP (“Het langer thuis platform“), which builds on the HalloZorg platform developed by ConnectedCare. The HLTP platform brings together communities of senior citizens, and facilitates information sharing and communication within the community. As a next step, the HLTP platform will provide access to on-demand services (e.g. laundry, meals on wheels, cleaning). For those clients in need of care, the platform provides integration with monitoring and security technology. The map below shows an overview of pilot projects with HLTP which…

At the end of 2019, our team participated in the fifth edition of the annual conference “A new generation of elderly (care)” in Nieuwegein. The conference was visited by 1,350 visitors. In addition to more than 300 elderly people, also carers, (district) nurses, doctors, students, administrators, managers, researchers and policy advisers were present. It was an inspirational day with a diverse range of speakers, discussion tables and inspiration sessions. One of the speakers was our managing director Martijn Vastenburg, who presented three of our R&D innovation projects. At our stand we got the direct opportunity to get in contact with…