understAID

The understAID project focuses on easing the lives of informal caregivers and directly addressing their currently unmet needs for accessible educational support. The solution will be based on new user-centred, personalised and context-based e-learning models that will provide customised and relevant guidance on how to deal with dementia and their inflicted relatives. The project’s major novelty consists of the development of a sophisticated search methodology – based on advanced interactive profiling and surveying methods – for matching learning material and content with an individual’s situational context and needs. This represents considerable advancements over today’s information search and classification system. understAID will help the informal caregiver look ahead to and prepare for future situations and thus provide prophylactic content in mobile and web applications. The understAID solutions will involve and be tested among end users in Denmark, Spain and Poland – and individuals heavily burdened by demented relatives will constitute the main target group. After testing, the consortium expects to start commercialising understAID solutions 6 months post-project in the 3 countries.