SPREAD+ and JAIN
SPREAD+ – Sustainable and Personalized Advances in Dementia Care
The mission of the SPREAD+ consortium is to improve the quality of life of people with dementia, their informal caregivers and healthcare professionals.
JAIN assists SPREAD+ in the development of substantive projects concerning technological innovations that are promising for the development of products or the further development of existing products.
The aim of the collaboration is to obtain a needs-driven approach in which both existing and new psychosocial and technological innovations are used in a timely, effective and sustainable manner in all phases of life with dementia.
The following three overarching objectives are leading:
- Matching, preparing, (further) developing, harmoniously evaluating and implement promising personalized interventions for the right person, at the right time
- Use advanced expertise, new methodologies, and tools to:
- Optimize the deployment of technology solutions to improve personalization
- Achieve inclusiveness from an intersectionality perspective
- Facilitate collaborative learning and implementation
- Setting up a sustainable infrastructure to achieve the above goals and to guarantee the long-term integration of the results, partly based on the involvement of people with dementia, their primary carers, and healthcare professionals.
The consortium is working on a broad inventory of the needs of people with dementia, their loved ones, and caregivers. Health Holland offers the possibility of additional funding for R&D projects to develop social technological innovations.
It concerns technological innovations that can be used early, effectively, and sustainably during the dementia process in all phases of dementia. This also includes innovations to improve the well-being of people with dementia, lifestyle, and health, support for informal carers, or the use of domotics for safety in the living environment.
JAIN will help these companies to come up with a complete product development proposal, that will be submitted to the Board of the SPREAD consortium.
In the product development proposals it must be explained:
- A short description of your product that you would like to develop or improve, including how it contributes to the quality of life of people with dementia and their loved ones, informal carers, and healthcare professionals.
- Which competencies do you have yourself and which additional competencies do you need to develop the product.
- How many man-hours do you want to spend developing the product yourself
- The estimated lead time of your product development
- An estimated total budget for the product development project