To explore this critical question, the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI), in partnership with Centre for e-health at the University of Agder, Norway, invites you to an inspiring international webinar bringing together leading innovators, thinkers, and practitioners from Scotland and Norway.
Join us to discover:
- How both nations are reshaping long‑term community care through digital approaches that empower people to live well at home
- Real examples of technology‑enabled care, new service models, and what’s already being delivered on the ground
- What the future of innovation looks like and the opportunities emerging for researchers, innovators, industry partners, and service leaders
- Shared challenges and collaborative solutions from two countries at the forefront of digital health transformation
Whether you are a health or care innovator, service designer, policymaker, academic, or digital leader, this session will offer fresh perspectives, practical insights, and opportunities to engage with international peers shaping the future of long‑term care.
From Norway we have Brooke Hollister and Markus Hagen Frydenlund, who will be talking about innovations in the built environment for people with dementia. Frank Eikeland will present the development of the University Nursing Home of Agder, which is now in its initiation- and planning phase.
From Scotland we have Professor Margaret Whoriskey and Gordon Baine who will discuss Smart homes of the future, and Jill O'Boyle from Blantyre Life talking about how innovation is embedded in Lanarkshire county.
Speakers
Brooke Ann Hollister
Dr. Hollister is a health services researcher, with over 20 years of experience conducting research on a variety of aging health and social policy issues; using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods in community-based participatory research and program evaluation. Her research program focuses on aging health and social policy issues including: long term care, health care financing and delivery, Alzheimer’s disease supports and services, caregiving, mental health, and frailty. Dr. Hollister's research funders include the Norwegian Research Council, the Norwegian Health Directorate, the US National Institutes of Health, Administration for Community Living, The SCAN Foundation, and the California Department of Public Health. She has been principal investigator on more than 15 grants totaling more than 40 million kr. Dr. Hollister is a founding member of the PraKHT (Practice-oriented research on municipal health and care services) research group at UiA, the Elder Agder Research Programme, and serves on the University Nursing Home in Agder Project Group and the Center for E-health´s Professional Council for Research and Innovation in E-health.
Markus Hagen Frydenlund
PhD Research Fellow Markus Hagen Frydenlund is born in 1990. He finished his bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of Agder in 2013. He worked for a short period in municipal healthcare before moving to specialist health services in 2015. He has clinical experience from both medical and orthopedic inpatient wards at Arendal Hospital. He completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Health Science in 2021, in which his thesis explored newly graduated nurses’ experiences of the working environment on somatic wards. He assumed the position of doctoral research fellow in November 2023. In his doctoral project he investigates the impacts of, and experiences with dementia villages in a Norwegian context, with particular focus on the practice of person-centred care. Through his research he aims to contribute to evidence-based knowledge about such modern living facilities for people with dementia.
Frank Eikeland
Frank Eikeland is a Senior Project Manager with Grimstad Municipality, bringing over 30 years of experience across construction, property management, and international market development. He holds a BSBA in Business Administration from the University of Wyoming and a degree in Civil Engineering from Gothenburg Technical Institute.
Margaret Whoriskey
Professor Margaret Whoriskey has joined DHI as Head of Innovation for Care and Well-being. Margaret is leading a new programme of work that will strengthen DHI's role in supporting innovation for integrated care and well-being. Having previously been Head of the SG Technology Enabled Care Programme, Margaret will bring her substantial cross-sector and international experience to the role. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with the DHI and look forward to collaborating with partners in seeking opportunities for how innovation can support service transformation, address some of our key challenges and improve outcomes for people”.
Jill O`Boyle
Jill is the Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Service Manager for Lanarkshire, leading Telecare, Telehealth, and Data and Solutions programmes. She leads the development of the TEC Zone, a public-facing interactive space for staff, service users, carers and the wider public, developed in collaboration with partners including the Glasgow Science Centre, to support learning and confidence-building around care technologies. Through the TEC Zone, her team supports intermediate care services, helping people consider technology options, such as Care Surround fleet-deployed smart speakers, as they prepare for a safe return home after hospital. Virtual medication prompting is currently being piloted with people living at home and will begin shortly within intermediate care. Alongside the Telehealth and Data & Solutions teams, she is transitioning into the NHS Interface Directorate where she will continue to lead this work and support digital innovation across health and social care.
Contact person:
- elisabeth.giil@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 37 23 31 89