Using a timer device for the stove: Experiences of older adults with memory impairment or dementia and their families

Starkhammar, Sofia; Nygård, Louise

doi:10.3233/tad-2008-20302

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“…This finding illustrates that it is far from enough to examine a person's prerequisites for using an AT without taking the situation as a whole into consideration. This is in accordance with the findings of Starkhammar & Nyga˚rd (2008), who stressed that follow-up and technical support are important. Furthermore, the findings indicate that the situation in which the AT is implemented must be seen as continuously changing.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Persons with dementia become users of assistive technology: A study of the process

Rosenberg

Nygård

2011

Dementia

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The aim of this study was to explore actions and driving forces of the actors involved in the process of bringing assistive technology (AT) into the life of a person with dementia. Specific focus is placed on the unfolding transactions and what they led to, and how the AT intervention corresponded to the situation of the person with dementia. Three cases, i.e. three persons with dementia and their significant others (n ¼ 13), were followed using case methodology and grounded theory. The findings show how doing the right thing was the main driving force, although sometimes a source of conflict between actors. The actors' views differed in many aspects, influencing the choice of problem and selected AT solution as well as the role of the AT and how it was placed and adjusted. A potential risk scenario was also identified, exemplifying how profoundly the view of the one who had decision power influenced the process.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Persons with dementia become users of assistive technology: A study of the process

Rosenberg

Nygård

2011

Dementia

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“…29, 33, 43 A study of a stove timer found the device decreased caregiver anxiety, but caused frustration when the device turned off the stove while caregivers were cooking. 42 …”

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“…None of the intervention studies described the characteristics of participants lost to follow-up. Fourteen studies 13,16,29–32,36,38–40,42,44–45 did not explicitly define the caregivers they included and eight 11,13,27–28,32, 34–35,38 relied on care recipients’ perceptions in order to establish caregivers’ outcomes. None documented the usage frequency of the AT being studied in any manner.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Quantitative studies were primarily descriptive in nature and the four intervention studies 33,39,44,45 used a pre-post design without a control group. The highest-level qualitative studies 30, 40–42 described shared pathways or meaning among participants, but none offered extensive description of experiential variation among participants or provided dense explanatory description.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Assistive Technology Use by Individuals with Disabilities Impacts Their Caregivers

Mortenson

Demers²,

Fuhrer³

et al. 2012

American Journal of Physical Medicine &Amp; Rehabilitation

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Informal caregivers are a critical, yet frequently unacknowledged part of the healthcare system. It is commonly presumed that providing assistive technology (AT) will decrease the burden of their care provision; however, no review has evaluated the evidence behind this assumption. Therefore, a systematic reviews was undertaken to evaluate evidence of the impact of AT use by care-recipients on their informal caregivers. Data Sources included Embase, Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Web of Science, PsychINFO, and active researchers in this area. Twenty-two studies met the specified inclusion criteria. Collectively, the findings suggest that AT use helps caregivers by diminishing some of the physical and emotional effort entailed in supporting individuals with a disability. However, confidence in this causal connection is limited because of the relatively weak study designs that were used. This undermines our understanding of the impacts of AT use on users’ informal caregivers.

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“…It is also one of very few kitchen specific support products for persons with cognitive impairments that has been of interest for research. Research in a Swedish [8,20] and Irish context [19], as well as the focus group data showed that stove timers can provide safety for the user and their family, but are also associated with new problems and sometimes can stop people from cooking food. In fact, the stove timer demands that the user adapts his/her way to use the stove to this device [19,20] which constitutes a challenge in the everyday use of the stove for persons with cognitive impairments.…”

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“The Cognitive Kitchen” – Key principles and suggestions for design that includes older adults with cognitive impairments as kitchen users

Lundberg

Johansson

Borell

2011

TAD

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The aim of this study was to generate new knowledge as basis for the design of kitchens and kitchen products that support ageing persons with cognitive impairments in kitchen activities within the cultural context of Swedish contemporary middle class society. Existing knowledge on the issue was collected through a review of the literature on previous research and through focus group discussions with those identified as experts in the area, including persons with cognitive impairments and their kin, occupational therapists and researchers. The analysis of the existing knowledge identified three important domains of kitchenrelated activities -1) storing, cooking and eating food, 2) socialising activities, 3) organising everyday life for oneself and the family -and four principles for design of a cognitive kitchen -a) Safety; b) Support for order and structure, c) Simplicity: easy to understand, easy to use and d) Guidance through recognition and intuition. Suggestions as to how the identified principles can be implemented to support persons with cognitive impairments in the identified domains of kitchen-related activities were developed and presented to stakeholders in a second round of focus groups to gather their reflections. This article presents and discusses suggestions for design of a "cognitive kitchen" developed through the study.

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Using a timer device for the stove: Experiences of older adults with memory impairment or dementia and their families

Cited by 29 publications

References 26 publications

Persons with dementia become users of assistive technology: A study of the process

Persons with dementia become users of assistive technology: A study of the process

How Assistive Technology Use by Individuals with Disabilities Impacts Their Caregivers

“The Cognitive Kitchen” – Key principles and suggestions for design that includes older adults with cognitive impairments as kitchen users

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