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Supportive technology is expected to facilitate life at home for people with cognitive impairment. To study the usability of a number of support-installations in ordinary homes a three-year project was launched in Sweden. Three sites, each planned to comprise some twenty participants about sixty years of age and upwards, suffering either from a cognitive impairment such as an acquired brain injury or other forms of cognitive impairments, have been engaged. One goal was to acquire knowledge and experience about technical support, their appropriateness and adaptability to the users and to the organisation supporting them. Another goal was to develop and test supportive technology and a third goal was to explore ways to the market for Design for All products which are necessary for some but useful to most of tenants. The housing companies played an important role for the development of the project and the way to the market, as many technical aids basically are parts of the physical building structure.
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SABO is the organization of the municipal housing companies in Sweden. SABO is the biggest organization on the Swedish housing market. In: The approximately 300 companies affiliated manage some 830.000 dwelling units. This is 20 % of the total housing stock in Sweden and about one third of all dwelling units in multi-storey houses. Altogether 1,4 milion people live in SABO homes. The size of the SABO companies varies considerably. More than 60 % have 500 - 5.000 dwellings. The largest SABO company owns and manages some 50.000 dwellings. SABO provides expertise in different fields, exchanges experience between its members and cooperates with national authorities and organizations. SABO also arranges conferences and takes on consultancy assignments. (www.sabo.se)
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Tjäder, C. (2007). DfA Products and Services from a User Perspective to Facilitate Life at Home for People with Cognitive Impairments. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Acess in Human Computer Interaction. Coping with Diversity. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4554. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73279-2_88
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