Mnemosyne: Project goals

17 October 2011

Mnemosyne aims to develop a service of remote teleassistance and guidance for the patients and their relatives. This might also result in a reduction of the workload that health professionals have to cope with and, consequently, in an improvement of their working conditions and quality of life. This is particularly relevant in some areas where geographical isolation generates important problems for these professionals.

Health institutions need to promote the development of suitable tools aimed at easing the relative/carer’s tasks by offering remote emotional support, limiting the need for unnecessary trips to hospitals (visits, information seminars...), creating a “families’ forum” for experience exchange and, by and large, allowing them to carry on with their daily lives.

The purpose of the project is therefore:

To analyse the state-of-the-art used in teleassistance platforms for the support of families and the monitoring of patients with Alzheimer and other dementia diseases and to identify the needs that the Mnemosyne project will have to address.
To adapt an existing teleassistance platform–based service to the identified needs and to the organisation and the applications to be used.
To measure and evaluate the facilities and applications included in the teleassistance platform and perform an ex-post evaluation of their results.
To produce a comprehensive report on the pilot test absolute indicators.
To communicate and disseminate the project results.
To release a white paper addressed to the public institutions and related agents.

Following the objectives mentioned above and in accordance with I4W lines of action the expected results of the project are:

Technical, administrative and financial management and monitoring system.
Report on ICT-based teleassistance services for dementia and Alzheimer patients and their families.
Regional report on the implementation of teleassistance services within regional policy frameworks.
Conceptual and organisational framework of Mnemosyne pilot test.
Set of materials, contents, family support and cognitive training tools.
Pilot test assessment report and policy recommendations white paper.
Policy White Paper summary and extended Version.