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O design e a doença de Alzheimer
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As well as the demographic aging tendency, Alzheimer’s disease is highly
increasing. And even though Alzheimer’s is now seen as a severe pulic health issue, the
patients still don’t have an effective cure, or avaiable senior care houses and institutional
aids. Therefore, patients have to remain in their own homes, and being carried by their
family and friends. Besides that, the decrease of patients intellectual capacities can lead them not to recognize their own caregivers, and – therefore – don’t cooperate into their treatment.
Comunication is, for that reason, a daily challenge; and the market isn’t fulfilling those
aims. Contrarely, equipments avaiable simply cover the superficial and pratical aspect of
the disease, when they are the emotional and communicative needs the ones in which
patients depend on. For those reasons above, the present research announces Bralzelet: two bracelets for Alzheimer’s homecare, conceived to foster confidence between ill and his caregiver/s by stimulating the heathy part of patient’s brain - the emotional side. This bracelets (one for the person with alzheimer’s and the other for his caregiver) cooperate by changing its
color when touched. That way, the bracelets can sensory provoke the diseased brain and
evoke biographical memories about the caregiver (otherwise it wouldn’t be able to
remember)
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Tese de mestrado, Design de equipamento, especialização em Design de produto, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2012
Palavras-chave
Design de produtos Medicina Doença de Alzheimer Terapias Cuidados domiciliários