Young Onset Dementia App
Young Onset Dementia Mobile AppYoung Onset Dementia (YOD) is the onset of dementia before the age of 65 years and it’s becoming increasingly recognised as a very important clinical and social problem in the UK and around the world. Young onset dementia can come with devastating consequences for the patients and those who care for them.
Being able to find age appropriate information and services for young people who feel they may be experiencing signs of early onset of dementia is currently limited and this has been explored through experience of working within this life changing area of dementia care.
The use of video and text content in this easy to use app provides engaging and informative material that can be viewed wherever, whenever.
The mobile app can be used by patients themselves or by carers and professional at the time of diagnosis so that in their own time, patients and family members can use expert guidance to help them to deal with all aspects of their diagnosis.
And more importantly guide them to an array of services and organisations that can provide specialist support and information both locally and nationally.
Plus educating the patient allows them to make informed choices and have good quality conversations with the healthcare professionals involved in their care.
Within the service directory sections have been categorised, e.g. finances, transport, living well, employment, relationships, etc. Along with contact details for these resources and links to websites. Our app is a one stop guide for anyone confused or concerned about YOD.
Our YOD App is available to download, free via both the Apple App and Google Play stores.
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The YOD App was developed as a joint venture between NHS Leicestershire Health Informatics Service and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Combining skills from both organisations (clinical knowledge + technical knowledge) to create something really exciting. The use of apps is not only more engaging as information is presented on a multimedia platform, but the use of text, audio and video is also much more accessible.
Consultant psychiatrist Latha Velayudhan said:
“We found there was a gap in information for those who had just been diagnosed. There is a lot for older people, but limited support for younger people.
“We think this app fills the gap.
“We had a few focus groups with patients and carers. The feedback was excellent. One of them said it would have saved them six months of searching for various numbers and organisations. The app takes you where you need to go.”
Gemma Clayton – Business and Marketing Manager LHIS said:
“One of the advantages of the app is that you can take it away and look at it in your own time, or with your family and carers. It is also being updated constantly so you have the very latest information on services, legal issues, finance and benefits, transport and many other topics.”
Awards and Media Coverage
Care Coordination Association Good Practice Awards
We were delighted to receive a Highly Commended in the national CCA Good Practice Awards for the category “Innovation to Support Service Development”.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust Celebrating Excellence awards 2016
YOD was also highly commended in the “Excellent Ideas/Innovation Award” category of the LPT Celebrating Excellence awards.
Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Annual Conference
Our team attended the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Annual Conference on 11th March 2016, which held as the East Midlands Conference Centre Nottingham. The app was received with great interest by delegates and downloads hit a record peak with clinicians who had visited our stand getting straight on their phones to get hold of the app!
Healthcare Mobile Application Development
Mobile Application Development
Here at LHIS we pride ourselves on our ability to use the latest technology available to help our customers make improvements, and efficiencies in their organisation, or to their customers!
This is a prime example of that ethos. Mobile application technology may seem out of reach to many organisations, however this is not the case. As you can see from the apps we have now made available on the Apple and Google Play Store, mobile app technology can be used for many things from simplifying and improving business as usual activities, such as patient communication and education, to enabling tools such as wireless availability.
This is a definite growth area for the industry, people are accessing information when and where they want to, and mobile apps allows you to target this audience directly, in the comfort of their own home, on the bus, or as an additional tool to be used in consultation with a customer/patient.
Do you have an idea for an app? Contact a member of our team today and we will use our expertise and experience to turn your idea into reality!
Mobile App development is a real growth area for LHIS, and it will be exciting to see how this area develops.
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I have great pleasure in recommending NHS Leicestershire Health Informatics Service (LHIS) for anyone considering developing Apps.I have collaborated and worked with LHIS since 2014. Following a successful bid to East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network Innovation Funds, NHS England, our Young Onset Dementia (YOD) team within Mental Health Services for Older People, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, developed an App for YOD patients and their carer, in collaboration with the LHIS, which is first of its kind as per our knowledge. This project was carried out during 2014-2016. It was showcased at the Annual Meeting for Old Age Psychiatry Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists, March 2016 and also at the Innovation Conference, Nottingham, April 2016.The YOD App has won couple of awards, (1) Highly Commended Award for the category Excellent Idea/ Innovation at the Celebrating Excellence event at LPT, April 2016 and (2) Highly Commended award at the National Care Coordination Association for category “Innovation to Support Service Development”, Oct 2016.I am continuing to collaborate with the LHIS team to develop another dementia App.I greatly appreciate the support; quality and professionalism of the entire team at LHIS who helped with YOD app. They were very friendly and approachable. The team is very motivated and enthusiastic and would go beyond their limits in completing the tasks. Although it was new venture for us as clinicians and them to be working in such an area, they were quick in understanding our clinical needs, they attended patient and care focus groups for improvising the App, amended and updated the content based on expert suggestions and were great team players to work together in designing and developing the app. More importantly LHIS supported immensely in marketing the App, presentations in various academic conferences, and producing the leaflets/pamphlets. My special thanks to Sarah Ost, Service Delivery Manager, who lead the project on behalf of LHIS; Kerry Cyster, Product & Customer Support Officer, for designing and for vigorous quality check; and Gemma Clayton, Business and Marketing Manager, for compiling/editing videos and further enhancement of the overall design making it user friendly.I wish all the success to LHIS team
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