ASOCIACION PARKINSON MADRID (APM) is a non-profit organization that has been involved in the care of people with Parkinson’s disease and their families since 1994. They have been declared a Public Utility by the Spanish Interior Ministry since 2001 and certified by ISO 9001 quality system. The activity is focused on the direct attention to those affected by the disease and their relatives. Training and research, as well as awareness of the disease, are other subjects of work. APM has been working for several years in the evaluation of devices and remote assessment technologies, fact that provides a great expertise in this field in order to establish the requirement and evaluation methodology from the perspective of Quality of Services and Quality of Life for affected and their families.
APM is in touch with end users, and will help in describing needs and requirements of the end users. It will also contribute to develop pilot methodology co-creation and validate mock-ups and prototypes, and will help with developing new solutions to improve the Quality of Services.
Target recruitment:
• Parkinson’s disease – 70
• Healthy controls – 20
This project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 853981. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA and PARKINSON’S DISEASE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM LBG.
