Wijstijd, Supporting Time Orientation Designed for and with People with Dementia

Abstract

The number of elderly living with dementia globally is expected to increase over the coming years. This project focusses on designing for people with dementia. Some common difficulties in the early stage of dementia are related to orientation in time. Difficulties such as trouble with planning or organizing, forgetting things someone has just read and a decrease in the awareness of time. Within the development process of this project, the users played an important role. This article highlights this involvement of the end users within the design process and the design decisions made from this involvement. The result of this project is the Wijstijd. It focuses on the problems surrounding time orientation for people with dementia in the early stages. The project is a graduation project at the University of Technology, Eindhoven.