SimPat

Funding

The collaborative project SimPat is subsidized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Summary

People with dementia often suffer from a range of diseases (multi-morbidity). In order to achieve best patient-centred care these patients need to be provided with numerous services of different sectors (medical facilities) of healthcare such as hospitals, medical practices or care facilities. A major problem, amongst others, is that these patients are neither able to comment on their general states of health nor on more specific issues, for example medication.

For ideal therapy and health care of patients with dementia an integration between all stakeholders being involved in the patient-centred care shall be achieved as part of the collaborative research project SimPat. For this purpose the aim of the project is to develop, implement and evaluate a case management system for multi-morbid patients with dementia. By using information and communication technologies, dementia patients, nursing relatives, caregivers and physicians shall be interlinked. That means relevant information for the care process shall be supplied in a suitable manner to all stakeholders involved in patient-centred care.

The overall aim of SimPat is to make a contribution to increasing the effectiveness and quality of health care as wells as the patients’ and nursing relatives’ quality of life.