MinderCare — clinical adviser to Imperial's home-monitoring service
Lay summary
MinderCare is a NIHR-funded home-monitoring service for older adults living with dementia, developed by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the UK Dementia Research Institute Centre for Care Research & Technology. It uses a small network of in-home sensors to track everyday patterns — sleeping, moving around, drinking, taking medication — and flag unusual signals to the clinical team. Early signs of falls, urinary infection, or worsening cognition can be picked up before they become emergencies, helping people stay safely at home for longer.
Dr Wright is a clinical adviser to the study (from 2025). Her role brings a community geriatrician's perspective to MinderCare in three ways: (1) study steering at quarterly project meetings; (2) co-design of the "Minder reports" — the clinical summaries that the home-monitoring system generates — so they surface the signals that matter at point of care; (3) active referral and follow-up of patients with dementia from her Hammersmith & Fulham caseload into MinderCare, and acceptance of MinderCare-flagged patients back into the frailty MDT.
She is not the named principal investigator on the study; her role is advisory and clinical.
What I contribute
MinderCare is a sensor-based home-monitoring service for older people living with dementia. The system tracks daily activity patterns and surfaces unusual signals to a clinical team. The project is at trial across Imperial College Healthcare's catchment area (Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster).
Why it matters
Dr Wright contributes a community geriatrician's perspective on study design, on the clinical interpretation of the home-monitoring reports, and on patient referral pathways into and out of the service. She is not the named principal investigator on the study — her role is advisory and clinical.