This new video from the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme explains the mission and the main goals of the European programme for active and healthy ageing. http://www.youtube.com/user/AALJP?feature=mhsn
REALISE is a new website that aims to radically change the lives of people struggling to use the internet, computers and mobile technology. Providing an online collaborative workspace, REALISE is a website where anybody can positively impact lives. REALISE, the next evolution in collaborative working, will be launched at two events, RaATE in Coventry on […]
Professor Wendy Tindale has been announced as the winner of the 2011 Beacon Award for Outstanding Contribution to Healthcare, at the Medilink Healthcare Business Awards 2011, which celebrate healthcare excellence in the region. The awards took place at the Medilink Innovation Reception and Healthcare Business Awards, on the 9th of November at the York Railway […]
Devices for Dignity (D4D), recently joined health professionals, inventors and academics with a design for life, at a new conference and exhibition called Design 4 Health (D4H). Among the delegates at D4H, which was based at Sheffield Hallam University, were Andrew Slorance, a man who has designed his own ‘Carbon Black’ wheelchair. D4D is supporting […]
Devices for Dignity is pleased to let you know about an online patient study for people using long-term, supra-pubic and intermittent self-catheters. We are aiming to improve the design of urinary catheters to improve comfort and reduce infections or blockage. Your help in completing this questionnaire will help us decide on the most important areas […]
In the second of the Medtech Business series on innovation through partnership, Chris Harris looks at a programme that brings together innovative medtech companies with healthcare providers and patients to meet difficult homecare challenges. Read the full article at http://www.medtechbusiness.com/features/2011/05/Partnership-for-privacy
The lives of people who find communication difficult are to be dramatically improved following a report published by Devices for Dignity (D4D), into Voice Output Communications Aids (VOCAs). The free to access report, whose development was led by Barnsley Hospital and NHS Sheffield as part of a D4D consortium, is designed to improve the development […]
The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £18 million over four years to show how new technologies and innovative services can help support independent living for older people and people living with long-term conditions, and improve their quality of life. The DALLAS programme – Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale – will establish […]
We are looking for female volunteers over the age of 18 years, who wear a pad for urinary incontinence to test some new ‘Smart underwear’. The underwear has been designed to help individuals manage their incontinence by alerting them if their pad has leaked. Your participation would provide us with essential feedback on how the […]
The FAST Parliamentary report on “Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2009-10” is now available on the Department of Health web-site for review. Click here to download a copy (pdf). Read Prof Mark Hawley’s report on how D4D is contributing to this field on page 17 of the report.
Validating the Need for your Product: Involving Future Users (Clinicians, Patients, Families) Webinar13th April 2022 - 4:06 pm
NIHR i4i Challenge Award in Real World Implementation – open for applications 4th November28th October 2021 - 11:32 am
NIHR SME Consultation Event – Friday 5th November20th October 2021 - 9:57 am
