Probing the Potential of Multimedia Artefacts to Support Communication of People with Dementia

Huldtgren, Alina; Mertl, Fabian; Vormann, Anja; Geiger, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9_6

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“…According to Huldtgren, Mertl, Vormann, and Geiger (2015), psychosocial interventions and support for caregivers of people with dementia are paramount in reducing caregiver stress and burden, which include education, information skills training, support groups, and counseling. Peer support benefits include shared experiences and reduced isolation, which most caregivers find helpful (Lazar, Edasis, & Piper, 2017b).…”

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“…Several reviews of interventions with dementia caregivers have been undertaken, and the results found to be conflicting (Huldtgren et al, 2015;Lazar et al, 2017b;McNaney, Vines, Mercer, Mexter, Welsh, & Young, 2017). Methodological criticisms include design weaknesses such as small samples, limited power, and effect size; insufficient information regarding procedures and the people delivering interventions; the broad range of outcome measures and multiple statistical comparisons; definitions of a caregiver vary widely generalizing difficult, and caregiver burden measures are insensitive to change.…”

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Understanding Dementia: Metabolic and Psychosocial Risk Factors

Carvalho¹,

Spears²

2020

AIJCR

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Dementia is a national priority, with over six million Americans affected at an annual cost of approximately $200 billion and no available cure. As the elderly population increases exponentially, the incidence of dementia is expected to double every 20 years. Currently, the global incidence of dementia is over 9.9 million new cases every year (Alzheimer's Association, 2018a). The relevant literature often addresses dementia as a degenerative and chronic disease, the course, and the duration of which can vary. The theoretical understanding of dementia has been influenced by the historical perspective of its formulation, which focused on the neurological aspects of the disease. Interest in studying the nature of dementia outside the neuropathology has, however, allowed for additional dimensions of the disease to be explored, namely the psychosocial aspects of the dementia process. Dementia is by far the most common cognitive disorders found among the aging population, and many researchers view it as a serious and growing mental health concern in the United States and around the world. This study explores the metabolic and psychosocial risk factors associated with dementia to provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying this disease, which is crucial to combat its high prevalence, incidence, and burdens. To expand the understanding of factors associated with the provision of care and treatment of dementia may lead to a significant increase in the quality of life and optimized functioning in the face of this impactful disease.

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Section: Caregiver Interventionsmentioning

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Understanding Dementia: Metabolic and Psychosocial Risk Factors

Carvalho¹,

Spears²

2020

AIJCR

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“…Reminiscence is the process of collecting and recalling past memories through pictures, stories and other mementos [36]. The practice of reminiscence, and more generally, reminiscence therapy and life review, have well documented benefits on emotional and mental wellbeing [3,26], interpersonal relationships and interactions [1,13], and preserving personal identity [6,9]. These benefits, along Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.…”

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Smart conversational agents for reminiscence

Nikitina

Callaioli

Báez

2018

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cognitive Services

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In this paper we describe the requirements and early system design for a smart conversational agent that can assist older adults in the reminiscence process. The practice of reminiscence has well documented benefits for the mental, social and emotional well-being of older adults. However, the technology support, valuable in many different ways, is still limited in terms of need of co-located human presence, data collection capabilities, and ability to support sustained engagement, thus missing key opportunities to improve care practices, facilitate social interactions, and bring the reminiscence practice closer to those with less opportunities to engage in co-located sessions with a (trained) companion. We discuss conversational agents and cognitive services as the platform for building the next generation of reminiscence applications, and introduce the concept application of a smart reminiscence agent.

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