Knowledge Artifacts for the Health: The PERCIVAL Project

Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) of patients affected by chronic diseases and their caregivers is a very important and inter-disciplinar research topic. From recent literature, it emerges the need for new methodologies capable to reduce the impact of a chronic disorders on everyday life of affected people and their relatives, especially when they are geographically far from care centers: the PERsonal Care Instructor and VALuator (PERCIVAL) project, collaboration between the REDS Lab and Educational Factory srl, is a first attempt to build up an integrated environment to promote the sharing, deliberation and monitoring of decisions about different aspects of chronic diseases among all the actors involved.