Guided compass
A clearer answer to: what am I doing now, and what comes next?
The app concept turns daily activities into a calm orientation surface with next steps, support prompts, and simple choices.
Prettig Thuis
Calmer, voice-guided support for living with dementia at home.
Prettig Thuis is a working prototype for home support: guided routines, spoken prompts, memory cues, and caregiver visibility in one calmer flow.
Guided compass
Voice read-outs
Caregiver dashboard
Prototype, not medical advice
- Prototype
- Dementia home support
- Not medical advice
Home support loop
routine
voice
memory
care signal
What it is
A prototype for practical home support, not a finished medical product.
Prettig Thuis explores how voice, familiar prompts, and simple digital flows can support daily life for people living with dementia. The focus is not complexity. The focus is calmer routines, clearer next steps, and a stronger sense of grip on the day.
The current app direction includes routine guidance, voice read-outs, a memory album, golden moments, caregiver views, patient-facing screens, and ICF-informed tooling. Together, those pieces make the prototype feel closer to a home-support system than a simple reminder list.
It is important to be explicit: this is a prototype and educational concept. It is not a replacement for medical care, diagnosis, or professional clinical advice.
Core experience
Built around routines, memory, and reassurance.
The prototype combines voice prompts, step-by-step flows, family familiarity, and caregiver visibility to reduce friction in daily life.
Voice read-outs
Spoken guidance for moments when reading a screen is too much.
Instructions and reassurance can be read aloud, making the support feel less like an app task and more like a familiar cue in the home.
Step-by-step routines
Daily routines become small, understandable steps.
Morning, dressing, medication, movement, meals, and evening routines can be broken down so the person is not facing the whole day at once.
Memory album
Photos, familiar people, and golden moments create reassurance.
Memory Album and Gouden Momenten-style flows can surface people, places, and stories that support recognition, comfort, and connection.
Caregiver dashboard
Remote visibility without turning care into constant surveillance.
Caregivers can follow completions, reminders, care events, and alerts so they know when support is needed and when the day is going well.
ICF tools
Functioning and participation sit underneath the product logic.
ICF upload, interview, and dashboard flows connect routines to real areas of daily functioning instead of treating the product as a generic reminder app.
Patient device
A patient-facing home screen for the day itself.
Patient Device and day-simulation flows help test how the experience behaves in the real sequence of a home day.
Conversation
A gentler way to prompt, reflect, and reconnect.
Gesprekspartner and talk flows point toward support that can feel conversational, familiar, and less clinical.
How the app works
A loop from routine to voice prompt to caregiver signal.
The useful part is the loop. A routine is selected, the person receives a clear prompt, familiar memory support can be added, and the caregiver side receives enough signal to understand whether support is needed.
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Routine selected
A daily activity is chosen from the person-facing flow.
2
Voice guides the step
The app reads out calm prompts and keeps the next action simple.
3
Memory supports reassurance
Photos, familiar people, and golden moments can be surfaced when useful.
4
Caregiver sees signal
Completions, care events, and alerts help caregivers know what happened.
ICF foundation
The concept is grounded in the ICF model, not in generic reminder design.
Prettig Thuis was framed through the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. That matters because the support is not just about alarms. It is about function, participation, autonomy, and care needs in daily life.
The app direction includes ICF interview, upload, and dashboard concepts so daily support can be discussed through functioning, not only through task completion.
d530 Toileting routines
d540 Dressing
d570 Health management
d450 Mobility
d920 Recreation and social participation
Why it matters
The pressure on dementia care at home is real.
Prettig Thuis sits in that gap between what people need every day and what caregivers or formal services can realistically provide all the time.
For people with dementia
More structure, less stress, and more confidence at home.
The aim is to reduce disorientation, support self-care, and make it easier to stay in a familiar environment for longer.
For caregivers and families
Less load, more peace of mind.
The caregiver side is about reassurance, remote visibility, and a better balance between work, family life, and care responsibilities.
For professionals and the care system
A lower-friction support layer around longer independent living.
The concept fits the wider shift toward keeping people at home longer while reducing pressure on formal services and creating more useful data points.
Scale and fit
Designed to fit longer-at-home policy, caregiver realities, and low-friction deployment.
The wider idea fits the Dutch push toward longer independent living, digital support, and care that can scale without immediately increasing formal care pressure. It also aligns with the reality that many families need help before they need institutional care.
Because the concept can work through familiar home devices and patient-facing screens, it is easier to imagine real home use, multilingual adaptation, and lower-friction rollout than with custom hardware-heavy approaches.
It also opens the door to caregiver dashboards, data-informed follow-up, and more structured conversations between families and care professionals.
Prototype status
Prettig Thuis is a prototype for calmer home support, not medical advice.
This prototype explores support for routines, memory, and caregiver reassurance. It does not replace a physician, dementia specialist, or any form of professional medical care.