Project: Successful Caregiver Communication and Everyday Situation Support in dementia care

Acronym	SUCCESS (Reference Number: aal-call-2016-089)
Duration	01/03/2017 - 01/03/2020
Project Topic	When people with dementia lose their abilities for communication and everyday tasks, it needs adapted strategies from the surrounding people to avoid misunderstandings that could lead to stress, helplessness, ggressive situations and caregiver burnout. However, most people are not trained to appropriately interact with people with dementia. SUCCESS provides an innovative training application on the user’s mobile device to support and accompany caregivers, relatives and people working in public to appropriately and effectively interact with people with dementia, based on existing communication and interaction strategies. Furthermore, it provides strategies for emotional support as to maintain on the carers’ own identity. Live role-plays with an avatar suffering from dementia will allow realistic scenarios with a practical orientation to better integrate the learning in real settings. After the training, the avatar gives concrete feedback to the user. The avatar can further demonstrate typical non-verbal communication of people with dementia and provide companionship to users. Additionally, gamification elements motivate the user to increase their knowledge about interaction strategies and everyday activities with people living with dementia. Based on design innovation methods and a continuous involvement of all relevant stakeholders (caregivers, experts and people with dementia) to the service and business model development, SUCCESS reduces the physical, psychological and social impact on caregivers and family members but also for the people they care for. It increases caregivers' emotional stability and guides them to balance their care activities with their own private life and interests. It is the aim of our strongly business oriented consortium, to create a service concept that has very high chances of hitting the market within 2 years after project end.
Network	AAL 2
Call	Call 2016 - Living well with dementia

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
	AIT Austrian Institute of Technology		Austria
	Citard Services LTD		Cyprus
	EURAG		Austria
	Exthex		Austria
	Romanian Alzheimer Society		Romania
	Singular Logic Romania Computer Application SRL		Romania
	University of Lethbridge		Canada
	University of Oslo		Norway