Symposium organized by Prof. Robert Philippe, coordinator of CoBTek (Cognition – Behaviour – technologie) Unit in France and partner of Dem@Care:

“ICT in Dementia: from assessment to stimulation”

in the 20th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 23-27 June 2013, in Coex, Seoul, Korea(http://www.iagg2013.org/) 

Presentations will provide review of the field and updated results of the research projects. Speakers coming from the ICT and clinic:

Presentations:

“Use of ICT and behavioral disturbances, in the Taiwan French program. ” Indoor and outdoor experiments in patients with dementia.

Pau-Choo Chung (Taiwan) and Francois Bremond (France), in charge of the SWEET Home ANR project.

“Use of ICT for the assessment of activity of daily living. ” European project Dem@Care and the results of the AD, MCI subjects.

Yiannis Kompatsiaris (Greece), the Principal Investigator of the European FP7 Dem@Care.

“Non pharmacological approach of behavioral disturbances using ICT. ” Evidences concerning 1/ the use of serious game for the stimulation of apathy 2/ the education of staff.

Philippe Robert (France) is the coordinator of a Memory Center. A review of the field as well as the updated results of the research projects.