Gerontechnology Companion: Virutal pets for dementia patients

Machesney, Dawn; Wexler, Sharon Stahl; Chen, Tony; Coppola, Jean F.

doi:10.1109/lisat.2014.6845226

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“…RCTs comprised 6 studies [ 36 , 39 , 43 , 47 , 51 - 52 ]; another 6 were cohort studies (2 with a control group [ 30 , 35 ] and 4 without [ 31 , 38 , 41 , 44 ]). Of the remaining studies, 4 were cross-sectional studies (surveys) [ 32 , 37 , 40 , 46 ] and 14 were qualitative studies: 9 employing in-depth interviews [ 29 - 31 , 34 - 35 , 42 , 45 , 48 - 49 ], 3 conducting focus group interviews [ 33 , 38 , 53 ], and 2 applying participant observations [ 39 , 50 ]. See Multimedia Appendix 1 for a complete description of the characteristics of the 25 reviewed publications.…”

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“…The intervention was implemented in both settings for 3 projects [ 35 , 39 , 41 ] that worked with participants from 2 selected residential settings. The visual pet intervention [ 50 ] was mobile, and the participants used it in their familiar surroundings not bound by their living environment. The Finland study by Blažun et al [ 41 ] had the intervention set up at a community college.…”

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“…Of the 25 projects, 2 [ 30 , 42 ] recruited living-alone elders only. In terms of participant health characteristics, 4 projects [ 29 , 36 , 41 , 47 ] targeted elderly people in generally good health and 5 [ 30 - 31 , 34 , 38 , 42 , 50 ] looked at those at high risk (lonely, frail, or chronically ill or physically handicapped seniors, those having dementia, and carers of spouses with dementia or after stroke). The other studies did not use health status as a filtering criterion for sampling.…”

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“…In the study by Tsai et al [ 52 ], 44% of the participants in the control group did not complete the study. Of particular concern was a study by Machesney el al [ 50 ] in which the number of dropouts was unfortunately not specified but referred to as “several.”…”

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The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

Chen¹,

Schulz²

2016

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundThe aging of the population is an inexorable change that challenges governments and societies in every developed country. Based on clinical and empirical data, social isolation is found to be prevalent among elderly people, and it has negative consequences on the elderly’s psychological and physical health. Targeting social isolation has become a focus area for policy and practice. Evidence indicates that contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) have the potential to prevent or reduce the social isolation of elderly people via various mechanisms.ObjectiveThis systematic review explored the effects of ICT interventions on reducing social isolation of the elderly.MethodsRelevant electronic databases (PsycINFO, PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO, SSCI, Communication Studies: a SAGE Full-Text Collection, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, and IEEE Xplore) were systematically searched using a unified strategy to identify quantitative and qualitative studies on the effectiveness of ICT-mediated social isolation interventions for elderly people published in English between 2002 and 2015. Narrative synthesis was performed to interpret the results of the identified studies, and their quality was also appraised.ResultsTwenty-five publications were included in the review. Four of them were evaluated as rigorous research. Most studies measured the effectiveness of ICT by measuring specific dimensions rather than social isolation in general. ICT use was consistently found to affect social support, social connectedness, and social isolation in general positively. The results for loneliness were inconclusive. Even though most were positive, some studies found a nonsignificant or negative impact. More importantly, the positive effect of ICT use on social connectedness and social support seemed to be short-term and did not last for more than six months after the intervention. The results for self-esteem and control over one’s life were consistent but generally nonsignificant. ICT was found to alleviate the elderly’s social isolation through four mechanisms: connecting to the outside world, gaining social support, engaging in activities of interests, and boosting self-confidence.ConclusionsMore well-designed studies that contain a minimum risk of research bias are needed to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of ICT interventions for elderly people in reducing their perceived social isolation as a multidimensional concept. The results of this review suggest that ICT could be an effective tool to tackle social isolation among the elderly. However, it is not suitable for every senior alike. Future research should identify who among elderly people can most benefit from ICT use in reducing social isolation. Research on other types of ICT (eg, mobile phone–based instant messaging apps) should be conducted to promote understanding and practice of ICT-based social-isolation interventions for elderly people.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

Chen¹,

Schulz²

2016

J Med Internet Res

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533

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“…Technology used to enable interactions for older adults include internet and email (e.g., [9]), social networks (e.g., [10]), video chats (e.g., [11]), virtual companions (e.g., [12]), and phone calls (e.g., [13]). Most one-to-one interventions limit the contact to a predefined person, such as a trained interviewer, a trained helper, or a volunteer [12], [13]. However, interventions enabling social interactions with relatives and friends are more common in recent literature [11], [10].…”

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What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Sanchiz¹,

Ibarra

Nikitina

et al. 2016

2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)

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In this paper we aim at understanding if and how, by analysing people's profile and historical data (such as data available on Facebook profiles and interactions, or collected explicitly) we can motivate two persons to interact and eventually create long-term bonds. We do this by exploring the relationship between connectedness, social interactions and common life points on Facebook. The results are of particular importance for the development of technology that aims at reducing social isolation for people with less chances to interact, such as older adults 1 .

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Remote home physical training for seniors: guidelines from the AAL-supported MOTION project

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European population will face an unprecedented aging era in the next years. Albeit aging in itself is a success goal, it may bring with it a general decline and functional limitations. In order to decelerate such decline, one of the most efficient strategies is physical activity. The present paper reports the insight emerging from three focus-group interviews organized at the beginning of the MOTION-Remote Home Physical Training for Seniors project, whose main aim regarded the implementation of an ICT system capable of offering home-based gym sessions to healthy seniors. The sixteen interview participants (11 females and 5 males, averaged age 72.3) provided several indications, which were grouped into the following themes: (1) ICT technical characteristics; (2) Platform accessibility; (3) Physical program features; (4) Psychological factors. At the end of the thematic analysis, results suggest that theoretical frameworks mainly focusing on ICT issues might be insufficient to endorse the successful development and maintenance of ICT systems such as MOTION, which challenges seniors to accept ICT while staying committed to the physical exercise program .

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Gerontechnology Companion: Virutal pets for dementia patients

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

The Effect of Information Communication Technology Interventions on Reducing Social Isolation in the Elderly: A Systematic Review

What Makes People Bond?: A Study on Social Interactions and Common Life Points on Facebook

Remote home physical training for seniors: guidelines from the AAL-supported MOTION project

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