TY - GEN
T1 - Home based assistive technologies for people with mild dementia
AU - Nugent, Chris
AU - Mulvenna, Maurice
AU - Moelaert, Ferial
AU - Bergvall-Kåreborn, Birgitta
AU - Meiland, Franka
AU - Craig, David
AU - Davies, Richard
AU - Reinersmann, Annika
AU - Hettinga, Marike
AU - Andersson, Anna Lena
AU - Dröes, Rose Marie
AU - Bengtsson, Johan E.
PY - 2007/12/24
Y1 - 2007/12/24
N2 - Those suffering from mild dementia exhibit impairments of memory, thought and reasoning. It has been recognised that deployment of technological solutions to address such impairments may have a major positive impact on the quality of life and can be used to help perform daily life activities hence maintaining a level of independence. In this paper we present an overview of our current investigations into how technology can be used to improve the quality of life of the ageing person with mild dementia. Specifically, we detail the methodology adopted for our work, outline results attained from a series of workshops to identify user needs and finally present how these user needs have been mapped onto the design of home based assistive technologies.
AB - Those suffering from mild dementia exhibit impairments of memory, thought and reasoning. It has been recognised that deployment of technological solutions to address such impairments may have a major positive impact on the quality of life and can be used to help perform daily life activities hence maintaining a level of independence. In this paper we present an overview of our current investigations into how technology can be used to improve the quality of life of the ageing person with mild dementia. Specifically, we detail the methodology adopted for our work, outline results attained from a series of workshops to identify user needs and finally present how these user needs have been mapped onto the design of home based assistive technologies.
KW - Assistive technologies
KW - Independent living
KW - Intelligent environments
KW - Mild dementia
KW - Mobile devices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548850729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783540730347
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 63
EP - 69
BT - Pervasive Computing for Quality of Life Enhancement - 5th International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2007, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2007
Y2 - 21 June 2007 through 23 June 2007
ER -