Dementia and Technology: a Creative Approach

Technology and Dementia: a Creative Approach
Technology and dementia: a creative approach
Sarah Botterill, Free Services Marketing Manager
Hester Anderiesen Le Riche PhD, Founder and CEO of Tover
Julie Nicholson, Digital Voice
Anne Gallagher, Luminate Scotland
25 May 2021

Technology and Dementia| 25 May 2021
Housekeeping
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• Please use the Q&A window to ask questions
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and to ask any remaining follow-up questions

Welcome: Technology and Dementia; creative
• Who are AbilityNet, and how can we help?
• Introducing Tover and the Tovertafel
o Tover’s beginnings
o Tover’s design strategy
o How Tover works and how it is helping people living with dementia
• Digital Voice, for communities: DigitalMe, DigiTale, LifeBooks
• Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing organisation

Tech at Home| 05 May 2020
AbilityNet supports people of any age,
living with any disability or impairment
to use technology to achieve their goals
at home, at work and in education.
We do this by providing specialist
advice services, free information
resources and by helping to build a
more accessible digital world.
A digital
world
accessible
to all
At home
In education
Accessible
websites
Events
(a11y
community)
At work
Introducing AbilityNet

Free services for individuals
IT Can Help (300+ vols)
Request support at home
Online support
Community &
partnership
• Free helpline: 0800 048 7642
• In-person support (suspended)
• Remote support (TeamViewer)
• My Computer My Way
• Blogs and Factsheets
• Free webinars (AbilityNet Live!)
• Local fundraising
• Charity partnerships (e.g. Stroke)
• Corporate relationships
5

Free services statistics
Last year (2020) we:
• Supported 3,500 clients & organisations
with their technology
• Resolved 4,700 issues
• Saw 1.7 million sessions on
My Computer My Way
• Had 78,000 factsheets viewed
6

Tech at Home| 05 May 2020
• 95% satisfaction for 1:1 support
o 90% better able to use tech
o 89% more knowledgeable
o 85% less stressed
o 84% more confident
o 73% less isolated
• Read more about our impact
“Dave, my local volunteer was an
invaluable help. Finding technical
support is hard when you don’t
know who to ask or who to trust. I
find computer terminology baffling.
Feeling a lot more confident now,
knowing that Ability Net can lend
support. Thank you so much.
A wonderful charity.”
Impact reporting free services
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We are a pan-disability charity
That means we support people to adapt their technology if they have:
• Cognitive impairments
• Hearing impairments or Deaf
• Mobility issues
• Neurodiverse needs
• Visual impairments or Blind
For people born with a disability or acquired through age.
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• @Mark
Poll 1: Meet the audience

Tover
Hester Anderiesen Le Riche PhD, Founder and CEO

Tover’s beginnings
Ambition to improve the quality of live for people with
dementia
PhD research at the TU Delft (Faculty of Industrial Design
Engineering) and the VU Amsterdam (department of Clinical
Neuropsychology).
• Starting point: 90% of nursing home residents with dementia
suffer from apathy.
• Goal: to design a playful product to reduce apathy.

Tover’s beginnings
• Findings:
• insights on how the physical & social environment
influence their level of physical activity
• which play experiences are suitable during the different
stages of Alzheimer's
• the design of the Tovertafel
• indication of positive effects on apathy (small scale
study)

Design strategy of Tover

How the Tovertafel works
• First commercially available evidence-based light game system for
dementia patients.
• Uses light play to project interactive images onto a surface
• Games designed to encourage instinctive participation, stimulating
physical & social activity
• For 2 target groups: people with dementia and people with a learning
disability.
• Can be installed remotely & provides unlimited access to all games,
updates & online environment ‘My Tover’
• Tovertafel is present in 14 countries and 5,500 care homes
(750 care homes in the UK)

How Tover helps those with dementia
For those with dementia:
• Increases social activity & enjoyment, physical activity
and positive emotions
• Reduces restless and tense behaviour and negative
emotions
• Breaks through apathy
For carers:
• Improves the relationship between care worker and
resident
• Increases the work pleasure
• Promotes interaction & helps to connect

Moments of happiness

How to access the Tovertafel
• Costing: £6760 (excl. VAT) This includes the Tovertafel device + 2
years Open Play & Learn subscription.
• Book an online demonstration to see the device and its games.
• Request an obligation free online offer.
• After accepting, the Tovertafel will be shipped within 4-6 weeks.

• @Mark
Poll 2: Challenges connecting
people with dementia

Digital Voice
Julie Nicholson

Digital Voice (Julie)

Digital Voice – DigitalMe

Digital Voice - DigiTale

Digital Voice - LifeBooks

Digital Voice – Success Stories

Luminate Scotland (Anne)

Luminate – who we are
• Scotland’s creative ageing organisation
• Projects, training and other development activities aiming to
enable older people to engage with arts and creativity
• Collaborations with local and national partners - community
groups, cultural organisations, artists and third sector
organisations
• Regularly funded by Creative Scotland and receive grants
from a range of trusts, foundations and public sources
• Team of 5, hosted in Age Scotland’s office
Photo © Andy Catlin

Luminate and people living with dementia
• Training for artists, community and care
professionals
• Dementia Inclusive Singing Network
• Projects in care settings

Luminate and Covid-19
• We moved online!
• Luminate@Home
• https://vimeo.com/435707881
• Training and support for artists
• Support for dementia singing group leaders
• New singing resources online and in hard copy
• Projects on zoom with care homes – important to
share the learning

Luminate feedback
• Luminate@Home: “It is very difficult and time consuming to find
suitable activities for residents in a care home and all these were
amazing” – survey respondent
• Digital dance project: “It’s so uplifting, it’s just wonderful. That
doesn’t just go for the residents, but for the staff too, and for
myself. There's been a few difficult weeks, one week particularly -
it’d been awful. And I came out of [the room where the dance
workshop was taking place] and felt so much better - to be part of
that fun, it was just lovely.” Kathy - Manager at Anderson’s Care
Home.

• @Mark
Q&A

Resources, reading and links

Further support from AbilityNet
• Freephone support: Call us on 0800 048 7642 during UK office
hours, Monday – Friday or by email enquiries@abilitynet.org.uk
• AbilityNet Live! www.abilitynet.org.uk/abilitynet-live
• My Computer My Way: https://mcmw.abilitynet.org.uk/
• My Study My Way: https://abilitynet.org.uk/HE-services/my-study-
my-way
• FREE Factsheets: https://abilitynet.org.uk/free-resources/abilitynet-
factsheets

• @Mark
For details of future webinars
https://abilitynet.org.uk/free-
resources/webinars

More information from Tover
• https://www.tover.care/uk/
• info.uk@tover.care
• +44 330 8181152
• www.facebook.com/ToverCareUK
• https://twitter.com/ToverCareUK
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/tovercare/

More information from Digital Voice
• www.digitalvoice.org.uk
• 01207 566866 or 07905 737393
• julie@digitalvoice.org.uk

More information Luminate
• http://luminatescotland.co.uk/
• Email: info@luminatescotland.org
• Phone: 0131 668 8066

Luminate – resources and UK partners
• Baring Foundation:
https://baringfoundation.org.uk/resources/
• CADA – Creative Ageing Development Agency in
England - @CADA_England
• Age of Creativity: http://www.ageofcreativity.co.uk/
• https://festival.ageofcreativity.co.uk/
• Age UK research: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/our-
impact/policy-research/wellbeing-
research/creative-wellbeing/

• @Mark
Thank You

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