Parra, Paulo, 1961-Alves, Diogo Emanuel Nunes2012-11-202012-11-202012http://hdl.handle.net/10451/7253Tese de mestrado, Design de equipamento, especialização em Design de produto, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas Artes, 2012As 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)porDesign de produtosMedicinaDoença de AlzheimerTerapiasCuidados domiciliáriosmaster thesis