Human factors design of a group activity for people with dementia

Sterns, Anthony A.; Sterns, Harvey L.; Sterns, Ronni

doi:10.4017/gt.2008.07.02.150.00

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“…Moreover, activities should be designed to be multisensory and dynamic to continually meet the needs of individuals with varying levels of competency. 30 One of the therapeutic cognitive interventions based on the Montessori principles is Memory Magic Program, [30][31][32][33] of which the design process has been described in detail. 32 The therapy consists of individual games that provide the content for a session.…”

Section: Leisure Activities and Robotic Therapy For People With Dementiamentioning

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“…30 One of the therapeutic cognitive interventions based on the Montessori principles is Memory Magic Program, [30][31][32][33] of which the design process has been described in detail. 32 The therapy consists of individual games that provide the content for a session. Participants are empowered to engage in normal social activity rather than nonparticipation and negative behaviors.…”

Section: Leisure Activities and Robotic Therapy For People With Dementiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the team and literature, the following aspects should be addressed or fulfilled by the product or interaction: no learning required 5 ; do not take away control 5 ; reassure the person with dementia 5 ; stimulate social contact; provide a trigger for interaction; familiar appearance; nonstigmatizing; help people to fit in the group; give them confidence; be played by people with different levels of cognitive functioning or varying abilities 32 ; manipulation of materials or objects (physical component, Montessori principle) 32 ; be safe in use; be limited in time needed to set up the game 32 ; be robust 46 ; be hoarding-proof 41 ; be designed to be used by people with reduced mobility/motor skills or tremors; provide a rapid response to perceived difficulties 46 ; make people with dementia feel proud and useful 29 ; make use of strengths (for instance, long-term memory) 47 ; establish a shared ''wavelength''; connect to the time frame of the people with dementia (approximately 1950s-1970s, as there is interindividual and intraindividual variation).…”

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“…The manipulation of the objects is one of the Montessori principle mentioned by Sterns et al in the design for dementia. 32 Participants can show others their competencies by not only operating the objects but also by providing songs or movies to the other group members.…”

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Designing Leisure Products for People With Dementia: Developing ‘‘the Chitchatters’’ Game

Rijn

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Stappers

2009

Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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Providing leisure to people with dementia is a serious challenge, for health care professionals and designers and engineers of products used for activity sessions. This article describes the design process of ''the Chitchatters,'' a leisure game for a group of people with dementia in day care centers. The game aims to stimulate social interaction among people with dementia. Different stakeholders, such as older adults with dementia, their relatives and care professionals were involved in the design process via qualitative research methods as participant observation and the use of probes. These methods were applied to give the design team insight into the experiential world of people with dementia. This article presents how design insights from practice and literature can be translated into a real design for a leisure product for group use by older people with dementia, and shows designers how to work with, and design for, special groups.

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Section: Leisure Activities and Robotic Therapy For People With Dementiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing Leisure Products for People With Dementia: Developing ‘‘the Chitchatters’’ Game

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Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen

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“…Electricity from coal is often criticised for its carbon emissions compared to natural gas (2:1) [4]. However, the real carbon efficiency [5] show stopper of solid carbonaceous fuel driven thermo-chemical plants is intermittency in offtake.…”

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Waste-valorisation by municipal solid waste carbon use in a Chinese township

Petters¹,

Mauthner²,

Tse³

2015

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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A small heavy industry town, severely affected by recent coal-use limitations by central government decided to re-invent itself into a "model-town", following China's new parole of "carbon efficiency". Currently, 250t of municipal solid waste [MSW] are landfill disposed, evenly spread and covered with soil every day. Moisture content of the MSW is 45% and the calorific value is 9.5GJ/t. o addWe proposed gross separation into bio-chemical and thermo-chemical processing fractions through coarse and drum sorting into fermentable sludge and combustible solid fuel. Anaerobic digestion [AD] residue of ~30% of input mass is mechanically dewatered for co-processing with the solid fuel fractions in a fast internal circulating dual fluidized bed reactor [FICDFB].The FICDFB decomposes feedstock into energy-rich gases under anoxic atmosphere of a bubbling, steam fluidized bed and can fuel itself from unconverted char, mixing with the bed-material, looping between the two reactor chambers as heat transfer medium, as long as the compounded average calorific value of total feedstock is ≥ 10GJ/t. Due to the AD step, solid fuel fractions and digestate compound to ~17GJ/t feedstock, thus allowing one to further add stabilized sewage sludge at ~27% of per capita waste aggregation, bringing the calorific value down to ~11GJ/t again.The combined treatments' output from the total chemical energy content of MSW and sewage sludge, representing 37MWchem per hour is 70% "burner-gas" and 22% "heat", whereof ⅕ qualifies as exergy. So total exergy-yield is ~75%.Since 60% of the gas' energy is represented by typical chemical synthesis gas moieties (hydrogen [H 2 ] + carbon monoxide [CO]) we further designed thermo catalytic dissociation [TCD] of the methane [CH 4 ] yields in, representing 40%

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Human factors design of a group activity for people with dementia

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Designing Leisure Products for People With Dementia: Developing ‘‘the Chitchatters’’ Game

Designing Leisure Products for People With Dementia: Developing ‘‘the Chitchatters’’ Game

Waste-valorisation by municipal solid waste carbon use in a Chinese township

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