KIC - Health & care

KIC Living with Dementia

Reaching a high age is relatively new for our society. Only in recent decades have people lived to be older than 60 to 70 years, and the number of elderly people is increasing. Only now are we learning what that means in biomedical, socio-psychological and societal terms. With this, the size and severity of dementia has recently become clear. Dementia has a considerable impact on the societal participation and quality of life of a person who suffers from it, but also on their direct environment. We still only know to a limited extent how to deal with this adequately. There is still a lot to learn and discover through careful exploration and research into people with (the initial stages of) dementia and their environment.

Purpose and objectives
The mission objective from the KIA Health & Care is that by 2030, the quality of life of people with dementia has increased by 25%. Three elements are considered important in this regard:

  1. Research into mechanisms of initiation, prevention and treatment of dementia;
  2. Insight into the active elements with respect to:
    prevention of dementia;
    prevention of the debilitating consequences of dementia, in addition to the provision of generic lifestyle recommendations;
  3. Research into increasing and/or maintaining the quality of life experienced by people with dementia and also their informal carers, and the contribution to the care by the formal care system, whether or not with the help of technology.

Connection with the creative industries
The creative industries can help with the first two elements to ensure that the end-user's perspective is always in the foreground. In addition, the creative industries can play a role in research into the perceived quality of life of people with dementia.

A number of Key Enabling Methodologies categories can be further developed via this call:

Behaviour and Empowerment
Institutional change
System change
Monitoring and Effect Measurement
Vision and Imagination
Value creation
Participation and Co-creation
Experimental environment

More information
Deadline Pre-registration: 26 January, 2021, at 14:00 CET
You'll find more information on this call via the NWO website.