Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings

Assistive technologies that continuously monitor the person with dementia’s behavioural, cognitive, and emotional state facilitate more objective means of assessing, monitoring, and supporting the individual than that provided by traditional questionnaires. The “Dementia Ambient Care” (Dem@Care) EU-...

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Main Authors: Hopper, Louise, Joyce, Rachael, Melander, Catharina, Kikhia, Basel, Karakostas, Anastasios, Savenstedt, Stefan, Irving, Kate
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spelling ftcunivdublin:oai:doras.dcu.ie:20901 2023-05-15T17:45:05+02:00 Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings Hopper, Louise Joyce, Rachael Melander, Catharina Kikhia, Basel Karakostas, Anastasios Savenstedt, Stefan Irving, Kate 2015-09-04 application/msword application/pdf http://doras.dcu.ie/20901/ en eng http://doras.dcu.ie/20901/1/2015_Abstract_Template_submitted.doc http://doras.dcu.ie/20901/2/Alz-EU-2015-Poster-v1.pdf http://doras.dcu.ie/20901/ This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. CC-BY-NC-SA Hopper, Louise orcid:0000-0002-9382-5241 , Joyce, Rachael, Melander, Catharina, Kikhia, Basel, Karakostas, Anastasios, Savenstedt, Stefan and Irving, Kate orcid:0000-0002-9255-4574 (2015) Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings. In: 25th Alzheimer Europe Conference, 1-4 Sept 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Psychology Health Dementia care Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed 2015 ftcunivdublin 2022-07-08T18:51:18Z Assistive technologies that continuously monitor the person with dementia’s behavioural, cognitive, and emotional state facilitate more objective means of assessing, monitoring, and supporting the individual than that provided by traditional questionnaires. The “Dementia Ambient Care” (Dem@Care) EU-FP7-funded project investigated the use of multiple wearable (actigraphy, 2D/3D cameras, microphones) and ambient (visual and infrared cameras, sleep) sensors for the recording of daily activities, lifestyle patterns, emotions, and speech, to develop a novel approach to the holistic management of dementia, in multiple care settings. This paper presents findings from the use of Dem@Care for remote monitoring and support in the home of the person with mild dementia, and for the clinical assessment and management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) for people in more advanced stages in a residential care setting. Four ‘home’ participant cases will be discussed; two in Greece and two in Ireland. An intervention study will also be presented comprising of residents from three specialist dementia care units in northern Sweden; two in the experimental group and one in the control group. In each setting, sensor data were analysed using state-of-the-art knowledge-driven interpretation techniques based on Semantic Web technologies. Patterns of sleep, physical activity, daily living activities, and stress/anxiety over time were identified. Through specific user interfaces, clinicians and formal caregivers were able to monitor the sensor recordings and the relevant analysis in order to propose new, or to adapt older, supports and interventions. Results indicate that such sensor-based information can have a positive impact on the assessment of BPSD in residential care settings. While at home, the person with dementia and their family caregiver could monitor summaries of their own activities, and read personalized messages, prompts and advice, thus providing timely support and enabling independent living for ... Conference Object Northern Sweden Dublin City University: DCU Online Research Access Service (DORAS)
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Health
Dementia care
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Health
Dementia care
Hopper, Louise
Joyce, Rachael
Melander, Catharina
Kikhia, Basel
Karakostas, Anastasios
Savenstedt, Stefan
Irving, Kate
Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
topic_facet Psychology
Health
Dementia care
description Assistive technologies that continuously monitor the person with dementia’s behavioural, cognitive, and emotional state facilitate more objective means of assessing, monitoring, and supporting the individual than that provided by traditional questionnaires. The “Dementia Ambient Care” (Dem@Care) EU-FP7-funded project investigated the use of multiple wearable (actigraphy, 2D/3D cameras, microphones) and ambient (visual and infrared cameras, sleep) sensors for the recording of daily activities, lifestyle patterns, emotions, and speech, to develop a novel approach to the holistic management of dementia, in multiple care settings. This paper presents findings from the use of Dem@Care for remote monitoring and support in the home of the person with mild dementia, and for the clinical assessment and management of Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) for people in more advanced stages in a residential care setting. Four ‘home’ participant cases will be discussed; two in Greece and two in Ireland. An intervention study will also be presented comprising of residents from three specialist dementia care units in northern Sweden; two in the experimental group and one in the control group. In each setting, sensor data were analysed using state-of-the-art knowledge-driven interpretation techniques based on Semantic Web technologies. Patterns of sleep, physical activity, daily living activities, and stress/anxiety over time were identified. Through specific user interfaces, clinicians and formal caregivers were able to monitor the sensor recordings and the relevant analysis in order to propose new, or to adapt older, supports and interventions. Results indicate that such sensor-based information can have a positive impact on the assessment of BPSD in residential care settings. While at home, the person with dementia and their family caregiver could monitor summaries of their own activities, and read personalized messages, prompts and advice, thus providing timely support and enabling independent living for ...
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author Hopper, Louise
Joyce, Rachael
Melander, Catharina
Kikhia, Basel
Karakostas, Anastasios
Savenstedt, Stefan
Irving, Kate
author_facet Hopper, Louise
Joyce, Rachael
Melander, Catharina
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Karakostas, Anastasios
Savenstedt, Stefan
Irving, Kate
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title Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
title_short Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
title_full Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
title_fullStr Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
title_full_unstemmed Dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
title_sort dementia ambient care: a holistic approach to the management of dementia in multiple care settings
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