Dementia 2017: Implementing Better Care

1. TIHM for dementia
Using technology to improve the quality
of life for people with dementia

2. The Health Challenge: Dementia
850,000 in UK have dementia at a
cost of £26bn p/a in health and social
care costs. Expected to jump to 1
million by 2025
In Surrey and NE Hants 18,800 are
estimated to have dementia
55% of those on the dementia register
across Surrey and NE Hants are
admitted to hospital each year
20% are frequent users of acute
hospital services

3. TIHM for dementia principles
Improving lives of people with
dementia and their carers
Reducing hospital stays and care
home admissions
Collaborating to create solutions
Targeting resources to areas
of need
User led design and innovation
Driving change in workforce
practice
Creating scalable solutions

4. How will the trial work?
Technological devices such as
sensors, apps and trackers
installed in people’s homes
Testing remote monitoring of
health and wellbeing using
data combinations gathered
via Internet of Things
Evaluation of results and
share health technology
learning to support other long
term conditions

5. Devices respond to meet clinical need
General health monitoring eg
blood pressure, pulse, hydration
for early indicators and fall
reduction
Sensors to understand routine
patterns of living and identify
notable deviations
GPS tracking to reduce
wandering and improve safety

6. The Living Lab
Test combinations of devices
Test infrastructure and data
security
Data integration and
management
Training carers/health
professionals
Evaluate and communicate

7. TIHM for dementia architecture

8. Integrated view used by monitoring team - overview

9. Integrated view used by monitoring team – alert example

10. What is unique about TIHM for dementia?
Most devices being used are not new – but now cheaper,
smaller and more efficient
Perfect time to exploit them using IoT
Until now devices used in isolation. Real benefit comes
from getting them to work together to collect and analyse
data
Will recognise someone’s pattern of behaviour and identify
if they are behaving differently

11. Trial timeline
Phase 1: Summer/Autumn 2016
Building living labs at Surrey University, testing
devices, ethics approval, recruitment of
participants and volunteers
Phase 2: Autumn/Winter 2016
Training for participants and volunteers on the
devices and technical pilot in small number of
homes
Phase 3: Early Spring 2017 – Autumn 2017
Devices placed in homes of 350 people with
dementia, benchmarked against a control group of
350 people
Phase 4: Winter 2017 - Spring 2018
Evaluating work and reporting findings. Publish
proposals for how principles could benefit people
with other long term health conditions

12. Find out more
tihm@sabp.nhs.uk
www.sabp.nhs.uk/tihm
@TIHM_dementia

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