Memory Lane and Remote Doctor services: two examples of how the ISISEMD platform supports both users and caregivers in daily life.

A major strong point of ISISEMD is its 360° assistance capability, in fact ISISEMD addresses the needs of and provides services to all involved parties: patients, patients’ relatives and caregivers.

ISISEMD Memory Lane and Remote Doctor services are two examples of how this platform supports both users (the patients) and caregivers in their daily life.

In other areas of this blog it is clearly explained that the ISISEMD platform provides a series of services to improve the daily life of mild dementia affected people, their families and professional caregivers who follow them up.

Based upon several years of experience in telemedicine systems, our contribution to ISISEMD consists in managing the design, development, customization and optimization of two services addressing different needs: Memory Lane and Remote Doctor. Memory Lane is an elderly users oriented service, where elderly users and relatives/caregivers play different roles, while Remote Doctor is reserved to caregivers, even if it can be accessed by the relatives.

The Memory Lane service aims to maintain memories to people with dementia, with no intervention: images are shown automatically on their carebox screen at home. To look at the digital picture album, which consists of pictures of family, friends, places that meant in personal life, is one of the stimulations that maintain cognitive functions. Looking at these scenes allows the user to use imagination and strengthen visual recognition abilities. The service is lived by the user as just reminiscence but it carries on an implicit personal challenge without asking for a specific (right vs wrong) answer. Pictures set and caption can be changed easily by relatives or caregivers connecting to the portal everywhere they are.

The Remote Doctor service aims to provide a series of clinical information to caregivers and to support them in daily elderly follow up: elderly personal profile, anamnesis, actual and previous treatment, visits details and clinical report are stored. Part of this information can be accessed by the relatives too, as an example actual therapy is shared in order to act as an incontrovertibly reference for elderly treatment. Furthermore the service offers the possibility to share the same information with a remotely located expert (she/he may be in hospital or elsewhere). The next service release will integrate a communication system able to put the field operator (caregiver) needing support in real time contact with the remote expert (second opinion).

The above described services offer examples of how the platform, even if focused on elderly requirements, proposes a full basket of services to enhance the life quality of both elderly people and their relatives providing, at the same time, a substantial support to those active in social service jobs.

Cinzia, Fulvio, Silvia

Dissemination activities on the region of Trikala, Greece

The ISISEMD project has entered the final year of implementation. It is now easier to disseminate and publicize the final schema of the project, as it is almost totally implemented. During past February, there were three dissemination attempts where the ISISEMD project was shown on TV from Trikala region.

1. In the first attempt on Friday 11th February, the project was presented live on a local TV channel (TV10) in Trikala, Greece. The channel broadcasts in the Prefecture of Thessaly, Greece, (part of which is Trikala) and covers around half a million population. The duration of the show was around 34 minutes and can be followed by the following links, as it is in two parts.

Part 1


Part 2

In the show participated two psychologists, Ms Xristina Karaberi and Ms Labrini Oikonomou, employees of DEKA. During the preceding days of that week there was a successful installation and association of a carebox PC (with ramos + sensors), which acted as a new DEMO machine. After the initial scope of the project, some talk about the cognitive disease, the project participants and the profile of a potential test user, our psychologists displayed a demo of most of the system's capabilities. They touched the help request button, they explained some reminders - some of which were planned and triggered during the live show which excited the journalist, Mr Christos Pissas, they described the use of the sensors and of the lommy device. Many times the cameraman focused on the carebox screen and its formation, which we believe helped everyone to understand its functionality, as it was plainly and clearly explained.

2. The second attempt took place on Monday 21st February. Ms Chrisitina Karaberi (Psychologist, employee of DEKA) and Mr George Gorgogetas (Electrical Engineer, employee of e-Trikala SA) presented the ISISEMD project in Greek national channel (NET). The show ("ΣΥΜΒΑΙΝΕΙ ΤΩΡΑ") is of news and educational character and took place on the house of an existing test EP.



In the few available minutes of the interview, the general scope of the project was explained, the installed sensors were shown and some shots from the carebox and the portal's administrative page were also monitored.

3. On Tuesday 22 February 2011, another public national wide TV channel (ET3) visited our premises in Trikala and had a reportage about ISISEMD.



On this reportage Ms Christina Karaberi (employee of DEKA), Mr George Gorgogetas (employee of e-trikala SA) and Mr George Vallas (employer of e-trikala SA) are shortly presenting the functionality of the project.


The dissemination activities made the ISISEMD project wider known and easier for some 'technophobic' Greek elderly to adopt. All these activities led to the location and recruitment of 10 people to consist the test group for the pilot in Trikala.