Designing electronic tracking and tagging solutions for people with dementia: Experiences from a Public-Private project collaboration

This paper describes a project collaboration between private companies, research institutions and municipalities. The goal of the project was to improve electronic tracking and tagging solutions for people with dementia. The solutions and strategies for implementation and usage were developed and examined in close collaboration with the users through several workshops were people with dementia, relatives, caregivers, and stakeholders got involved. In this paper we give examples of our findings from the workshop related to the design, information sharing, and suggestions for making the solution accessible to the users at an early stage of their illness. Finally, we discuss our experiences and challenges regarding the collaboration.