AP-HP
The activities of the Broca Hospital, which belongs to the Cochin-Broca-Hotel-Dieu hospital and to Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), include medical care, research and teaching in Geriatrics with (1) Geriatric network in the community (2) Acute and rehabilitation care hospitalisation, (3) Long-term hospitalisation, (4) Day care hospitalisation, (5) day care centre. Ee have expertise in the following tasks: assessment of end-users needs, development of cognitive stimulation programmes and educational programmes for their carers, evaluation of technologies for elderly persons and their carers in the hospital, in day care centres and at home (evaluation of lab and field trials), implementation and evaluation of e-learning programmes focused on AD for professionals, reflexion on ethics and technologies for elderly persons. We are involved in national and European projects which aim at evaluating the benefit of ICT developed for old people (TANDEM, QUOVADIS, RobadomHCNV, CompanionAble (FP7) projects.
Role in the project: Broca’s research concerning usability, accessibility and user experience ensures that the user needs and end-user acceptance will be properly addressed throughout the T&Tnet project.