ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how people living with dementia can co-create their own technological solutions. A principle of good co-creation, whether it is a service change or the development of a technological innovation, is to value the skills, knowledge, time and expertise of people living with dementia, and viewing them as experts. The chapter explores how assistive technology in its broadest sense can enable living with dementia to have a good quality of life. There are a number of challenges for practitioners using or wanting to use assistive technologies. Generally practitioners view assistive technologies as either telehealth or telecare. Most health and social care practitioners working with people living with dementia will more likely use telecare rather than telehealth for keeping people safe and for remote monitoring of physical symptoms. Telehealth will be more commonly used where comorbidity with a long-term physical condition, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exists.
