Towards the development of a technology for art therapy and dementia: Definition of needs and design constraints

Mihailidis, Alex; Bellows, Scott; Boger, Jennifer; Richards, Brandi; Zutis, Krists; Young, Laurel; Hoey, Jesse

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2010.05.004

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“…The trials also gave us a "to-do" list of elements that can be added/removed from the current prototype. More details on this system can be found in Blunsden et al [2009] and Mihailidis et al [2010], and simulated examples of this system in use can be found in Hoey et al [2010a]. Details on the six-week trial described before can be found in a forthcoming paper [Leuty et al 2011].…”

Section: Art Therapy: Epadmentioning

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“…The second is a device for stroke rehabilitation in the home [Kan et al 2008. The third is a tool for art therapists to use during sessions with persons with Alzheimer's disease [Blunsden et al 2009;Mihailidis et al 2010]. The fourth is a system for automatically generating cognitive assistants based on psychological analysis of tasks ], and the last shows how hierarchical controllers for prompting systems can be formulated using the same method .…”

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The ratio of healthcare professionals to care recipients is dropping at an alarming rate, particularly for the older population. It is estimated that the number of persons with Alzheimer's disease, for example, will top 100 million worldwide by the year 2050 [Alzheimer's Disease International 2009]. It will become harder and harder to provide needed health services to this population of older adults. Further, patients are becoming more aware and involved in their own healthcare decisions. This is creating a void in which technology has an increasingly important role to play as a tool to connect providers with recipients. Examples of interactive technologies range from telecare for remote regions to computer games promoting fitness in the home. Currently, such technologies are developed for specific applications and are difficult to modify to suit individual user needs. The future potential economic and social impact of technology in the healthcare field therefore lies in our ability to make intelligent devices that are customizable by healthcare professionals and their clients, that are adaptive to users over time, and that generalize across tasks and environments.A wide application area for technology in healthcare is for assistance and monitoring in the home. As the population ages, it becomes increasingly dependent on chronic healthcare, such as assistance for tasks of everyday life (washing, cooking, dressing), medication taking, nutrition, and fitness. This article will present a summary of work over the past decade on the development of intelligent systems that provide assistance to persons with cognitive disabilities. These systems are unique in that they are all built using a common framework, a decision-theoretic model for general-purpose assistance in the home. In this article, we will show how this type of general model can be applied to a range of assistance tasks, including prompting for activities of daily living, assistance for art therapists, and stroke rehabilitation. This model is a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) that can be customized by end-users, that can integrate complex sensor information, and that can adapt over time. These three characteristics of the POMDP model will allow for increasing uptake and long-term efficiency and robustness of technology for assistance.

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“…Musical memory is relatively spared in dementia [39] and multiple technology projects have leveraged this including the one-button radio [40], simple music-making interface [41] and collaborative music making [42]. Enjoying art has also led to programmes such as House of Memories 1 , an interactive art installation for care homes [43], making art as an enjoyable pastime [44] and a more focused art therapy programme [45, 46]. …”

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Technology and Dementia: The Future is Now

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Background: Technology has multiple potential applications to dementia from diagnosis and assessment to care delivery and supporting ageing in place. Objectives: To summarise key areas of technology development in dementia and identify future directions and implications. Method: Members of the US Alzheimer’s Association Technology Professional Interest Area involved in delivering the annual pre-conference summarised existing knowledge on current and future technology developments in dementia. Results: The main domains of technology development are as follows: (i) diagnosis, assessment and monitoring, (ii) maintenance of functioning, (iii) leisure and activity, (iv) caregiving and management. Conclusions: The pace of technology development requires urgent policy, funding and practice change, away from a narrow medical approach, to a holistic model that facilitates future risk reduction and prevention strategies, enables earlier detection and supports implementation at scale for a meaningful and fulfilling life with dementia.

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“…Having regular access to the creation of art has been shown to cause positive changes in mood and cognition for people with dementia and provide them with a form of expression that can enable meaningful connections to others [54,55]. ePad is a device being developed by Hoey et al [56] to be used by older adults with dementia during sessions with an arts therapist. The user is presented with simple creative arts tasks, such as painting or creating a collage, on a large touch screen.…”

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The future of intelligent assistive technologies for cognition: Devices under development to support independent living and aging-with-choice

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A person's ability to be independent is dependent on his or her overall health, mobility, and ability to complete activities of daily living. Intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) are devices that incorporate context into their decision-making process, which enables them to provide customised and dynamic assistance in an appropriate manner. IATs have tremendous potential to support people with cognitive impairments as they can be used to support many facets of well-being; from augmenting memory and decision making tasks to providing autonomous and early detection of possible changes in health. This paper presents IATs that are currently in development in the research community to support tasks that can be impacted by compromised cognition. While they are not yet ready for the general public, these devices showcase the capabilities of technologies one can expect to see in the consumer marketplace in the near future.

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Towards the development of a technology for art therapy and dementia: Definition of needs and design constraints

Cited by 39 publications

References 12 publications

People, sensors, decisions

People, sensors, decisions

Technology and Dementia: The Future is Now

The future of intelligent assistive technologies for cognition: Devices under development to support independent living and aging-with-choice

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