That's why we at RISE work in the area of ​​Digital transformation in elderly care to strengthen care's ability to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities. Via the center, you reach a unique and broad competence throughout the entire journey of change.

We meet your needs for support during a shorter intervention or a longer process. Through the large network of municipalities, regions, companies, and other organizations with which we collaborate, we can meet your challenge in proven ways or explore and break new ground together.

We have areas of expertise in impact measurement, service design, innovation procurement, work environment development linked to digitization and much more. Experienced Project managers and Change managers are offered as a cornerstone in collaborations.

RISE can contribute, among other things, in the following areas:

• Innovation work and renewability
• Analysis
• Business and service development
• Implementation
• Competence development

Read more about RISE contribution to digital transformation in municipal care.

The challange

Life stories are collected information about a person, everything from their history to preferences and habits. The method is often used in care and social care to create the conditions for person-centred care. The stories play a vital role for many people as it is a tool that gives the opportunity to see beyond diagnoses. The problem with the method today is that the stories are often "hidden" in journal systems and are not available in daily work. They are also time-consuming to collect, which entails the risk that they are not prioritized and that they are not updated when the person changes over time.

The goal

Through an iterative and user-driven process, the project has explored how multisensory interactive life stories can be designed to:

• convey the sense of identity and belonging create an experience for several senses
• evoke memories, inspire activities, conversations and contribute to well-being
• be useful & available to the staff in their daily work
• increase participation in one's own care situation & social context

The concept developed during the project has been designed as a prototype that has been tested and evaluated by the users in their real context, i.e. staff and care recipients in nursing homes, relatives and elder people still living at home.

Demonstration of the prototype

The application "Like or dislike"

Users engage in conversation around the images displayed on the screen and select thumbs up (like) or thumbs down (dislike) on the images to make a selection. The pictures that get the thumbs up are saved in a collection that can then be sent to Pebbles.

"Pebbles"

Users can either send pictures to Pebbles from the "Like or dislike"-session or from ready-made categories on different themes (for example nature, travel or sports). The images sent to the Pebbles are displayed on a digital screen on the undersides of the "pebbles". After users have viewed the image, they can flip them over to await a new image. If the user holds the stone in their hand, they can also feel it vibrate when the image changes. In this way, it becomes clear that something new has happened.

Publications

AHFE International Conference 2013 Life Stories – Developing an Interactive Solution for Reminiscence and Communication.
AHFE Open Access, vol 88. AHFE International, USA.http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003660

AHFE International Conference 2014 Evaluation of an Interactive Solution for Reminiscence and Communication.  
AHFE Open Access, vol 133. AHFE International, USA.http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004890

Each year, many millions of children are exposed to painful medical events such as vaccinations, blood tests, minor surgeries or invasive examinations. Children often perceive these events as frightening, which can lead to failed treatments, slower healing and anxiety about medical procedures. 

The project’s objective is to strengthen empowerment and trust of the child and their parents during medical procedures and to prevent procedural anxiety and trauma. This is achieved through development of an innovative digital tool integrating multiple evidence-based principles tailored on the age and developmental level of the child. 

The project runs over a period of three years from January 2020 until December 2022. The funding is provided by EIT health. 

In the tool, an attractive and colorful bird-like creature, named Milo will be the companion of the child during the hospital visit and procedure. The “Breath of Nature” is a magical world where the child is invited to join. A multi-modular app with trust-enhancing, relaxation and training modules for the children and their parents will be developed and can be used in the waiting room or at home. Central in the little nirvana experience is the procedural encounter. This will be embedded in a multisensory 2D/3D experience. A service is developed for the care providers, with which they can control the interactive experience based on the patient's status and needs/phases of the procedure.

During the project, RISE, Brain+, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital, Lytics and Sentian first researched how digital game design and design for behavior change could potentially be applied to discover, prevent and treat Alzheimers disease. Later in the project, the project partners explored how the form of dementia treatment called Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, CST, can be translated to a digital format through support tools for clinical professionals as well as relatives, acquaintances and people around people with dementia.

Participants from RISE included Kristina Knaving, Annika Gustafsson, Maja Fjällbäck, Anneli Nöu, László Sall Vesselényi and Jessica Dagman.

Project manager Ingela Ernestam, responsible for Health and Care at Alfred Nobel Science Park, will together with Mona Jonsson, e-health strategist and Håkan Cavenius, researcher, at RISE conduct a feasibility study to identify the need for a service that ensures high quality tests in the project VisaTestNytta.

- First, we will carry out an updated analysis of the surrounding world to establish what tools and methods are available nationally today to evaluate tests. Then we intend to make a needs analysis of actors who carry out tests of welfare technology, says Ingela Ernestam.

She believes that it is important to take into account several parameters in order to evaluate the benefits of welfare technology - that not everything can be measured from an economic perspective. For example, there may be technical devices that do not save money for a municipality, but which create other values ​​such as staff and residents becoming less stressed.

Many organizations

The aim of the feasibility study is to present a needs- and market research and proposals for a service to ensure qualitative tests of welfare technology for national actors who may be interested in owning, managing and developing such a service. If there is interest, the goal is then to develop a service with several benefits together with the organization:

• To ensure that all conditions are in place to conduct tests of welfare technology
• To provide tools and methods for conducting high quality tests
• To provide research-based tools and methods for evaluating the tests - both qualitatively and quantitatively
• Reporting system that with the help of visualization delivers a clear result and recommendation on whether the organization should proceed after the test, for example by introducing some type of welfare technology within a municipality

The VisaTestNytta project runs until the end of June 2021 and is financed with half a million kronor from the innovation authority Vinnova. In addition to Alfred Nobel Science Park and RISE, a reference group with participants from Örebro University and Örebro Municipality is participating.

I projektet skapade vi en brygga mellan utbud och efterfrågan på ny välfärdsteknik. Dvs mellan entreprenörer och beställarsidan/behovsägarna där vi bidrog till utveckling av behovsanpassade och mer köpbara lösningar och även till en ökad kunskap och förståelse för utmaningar och möjligheter inom området välfärdsteknik. Vi hjälpte företag och offentlig verksamhet att förstå varandras förutsättningar för att kunna göra goda affärer.

I projektet skapade vi en neutral utvecklingsarena där entreprenörer och kommuner kunde ha ett enkelt utbyte och samtal kring vad som behövdes inom utveckling av välfärdsteknik. RISE hade en betydande del av projektet och ansvarade för denna utvecklingsarena som tillsammans med testmiljöerna skapade en helhet i utvecklingsflödet. Från att öka kunskapen inom en mängd olika områden, nätverkande i branschen och individuell coaching av företag till att genomföra tester i livinglab och erbjuda användarpaneler med specifika och relevanta kompetenser som verktyg för utveckling och förädling av lösning. 

Projektet var ett samverkansprojekt mellan tre kommuner, ett kommunförbund, en region och RISE (se ruta till höger). Projektet var delfinansierat av deltagande samt EU:s regionala tillväxtfond.

I projektet jobbade vi med:

• Coaching av entreprenörer/företag för att öka deras förutsättning att ta fram behovsanpassade och köpbara lösningar
• I början av projektet visade vi kommuner i regionen vilken teknik som fanns och inspirerade dem till att se välfärdsteknik som en möjlighet i välfärdsuppdraget
• Branschunikt nätverk med ca 150 företag/organisationer
• Vi genomförde 20 öppna nätverksträffar för lärande och nätverkande 
• Testmiljöer med testledare i Huddinge kommun, Nacka kommun och Stockholms Stad/Skärholmen
• Tester genom living lab både i hemmiljö och på särskilt boende 
• Tester genom paneler och workshops med behovsägare, användare och relevanta yrkesroller framtagna för varje unikt test. 
• Återkommande fysiska och digitala seniorpaneler
• Utveckling av testkompetens och digitaliseringsmognad hos deltagande kommuner/testmiljöer
• Inspirationsföreläsningar till beslutsfattare, medarbetare /verksamheter och användare
• Framtidsinspirerade dialoger och samverkan med andra forskningsprojekt 
• Samverkan med andra SME-stödjande organisationer och projekt både externt och inom RISE

Några framgångsfaktorer och nyttor vi såg i projektet var:

Framgångsfaktorer

• Ingen eller mycket låg ingångströskel
• Bollplank med kompetent testkund
• Insyn hos kunden/verksamheten – förstå kontexten
• Ärliga utan värdering
• Neutral partner – ”ofarlig” och enkel kontakt med företag för offentliga aktörer
• Processmetod från utvecklingsarena till testmiljö
• Erbjuda test mot rätt målgrupp
• Erbjuda rätt företag till rätt testmiljö

Nyttor

• Erbjudande och affärsidé utmanas
• Fördjupad kunskap genom samtal med olika yrkesroller, seniorer m fl
• Nätverksträff som skapar fokus på utmaning
• Dialoger och test hjälper till i prioritering av funktionalitet
• Ökad och ny kunskap om behov av utveckling av ny funktionalitet
• Kunskap om möjlighet att arbeta på andra sätt
• Kunskap om aktörer och innovationer på marknaden

 Erfarenheter och lärdomar från projektet väver vi in i nya projekt och aktiviteter med nya samarbetsparter.

Vill du läsa mer om projektet finns material här. Men tveka inte att ta kontakt med Malin Edlund Fransson eller Ann-Sofie Mårtensson om du vill veta mer. 

Sweden's health care is facing major challenges. Demographics with an aging population, difficulties with the provision of skills and the conversion to digital systems provide opportunities, but also place great demands on management, routines and collaboration.

People living in nursing homes are usually elderly and multi-ill with great physical or cognitive difficulties to cope with their own housing and need continuous help and support. For these people, physician continuity is an important part of the treatment, which is unfortunately lacking in many rural communities.

With the project, we wanted to create security for citizens who live in nursing homes and their relatives in the Västerbotten Region's area of ​​southern Lapland. This group is severely affected by not having a continuity in doctor contacts, which is because they are forced to use reluctant doctors in the area to deal with the shortage of doctors.

The project seeked to address the challenge and increase the confidence of these citizens in care and care through the combination of digital and physical care services.

Project partners in addition to RISE were Glesbygdsmedicinskt Centrum, Region Västerbotten, Malå municipality, KRY and the Civic Tech platform.

Vinnova's Civic tech program: Digital services for increased trust between citizens and the public sector fund this project.

A short video clip about the project (Swedish)

Filmklipp

Presentationer om projektet

Demo av digifysisk vårdkontakt och dess nytta (2.02 min)

Resultat utvärdering digifysiska vårdkontakter (1.38 min)

Vitalis 2021: Presentation av projektet (23.35 min)

Region Västerbottens presentation av projektet (52 sek)

TV

SVT: Här rondar läkare på 100 mils avstånd (1 min)

Radio

SR P4 Västerbotten: Nätdoktor ska råda bot på Malås läkarbrist

Artiklar - länkar

Läkartidningen: Västerbotten testar digital läkarkontakt

Dagens Medicin: Geriatriker från Flen rondar på äldreboenden i Västerbotten

Civic Tech Sweden: Norrlands äldre träffar specialistläkare digitalt i pilotprojekt

The focus for the site is to support municipalities, organizations in municipal care and social services with:

• Doing right - advice to comply with applicable laws, such as confidentiality and procurement.
• Getting started - tips and presentation of developed services and knowledge of what digital services and products are available, which can be found on the Marketplace page.
• Broadening the use of services - tips and ideas on how already introduced services can be used in different ways.

Digitalvardochomsorg.se is a compass for care and social services in the needs of transformation from analog and physical to digital. Here you can directly find links to the specific materials of the collaborators that have been collected and created to meet the new challenge.

The various national actors in the project working in health care, social care and social services support the work that is done in the municipalities. At digitalvardochomsorg.se, through this collaboration, there is a credible and quality-assured content that is offered to everyone who needs.

The site is maintained by RISE in collaboration with the National Board of Health, the E-Health Authority, the Swedish Agency for Participation, SKR, the Swedish Social Managers Association, the Procurement Authority, PTS, the Healthcare Analysis, IT&Telecom bolagen; the IT and telecom companies, Swedish Medtech and Medtech 4 health and co-financed by the Ministry of Social Affairs. Updates are ongoing.