ArticleJMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies2017
Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia: A Position Paper on Issues Regarding Development, Usability, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness, Deployment, and Ethics.
Article in JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 135 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Toward better technology for social health in dementia: a review of implementation recommendations and research priorities to equitably meet the demand.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Enhancing Enrollment and Adherence in Long-Term Wearable Research on Dementia: Qualitative Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.JMIR aging · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review of the effectiveness of technological interventions for caregivers of people with dementia: effects on quality of life and psychoemotional variables.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Exergaming for dementia and mild cognitive impairment.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Technology-based interventions on burden of older adults' informal caregivers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Digital technologies to prevent falls in people living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a rapid systematic overview of systematic reviews.Age and ageing · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of computer-based interventions for community-dwelling people with cognitive decline: a systematic review with meta-analyses.BMC geriatrics · 2023Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of e-Health Solutions for Aging With Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review.The Gerontologist · 2021Pooled it
- Technology-driven solutions to prompt conversation, aid communication and support interaction for people with dementia and their caregivers: a systematic literature review.BMC geriatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care: An Updated Analysis of the Literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Technologies for Cognitive Training and Cognitive Rehabilitation for People With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Active Involvement of People with Dementia: A Systematic Review of Studies Developing Supportive Technologies.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2019Pooled it
- Assistive technology for memory support in dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Recruiting Persons With Dementia: A Systematic Review of Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasPooled it
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- The Effectiveness of GRADIOR: A Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Program for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia. Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial After 4 and 12 Months of Treatment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2022Trial
- Video-Enhanced Care Management for Medically Complex Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Trial
- An augmented reality approach for ADL support in Alzheimer's disease: a crossover trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Trial
- Implementation of the Blended Care Self-Management Program for Caregivers of People With Early-Stage Dementia (Partner in Balance): Process Evaluation of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
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Abstract
backgroundWith the expected increase in the numbers of persons with dementia, providing timely, adequate, and affordable care and support is challenging. Assistive and health technologies may be a valuable contribution in dementia care, but new challenges may emerge.
objectiveThe aim of our study was to review the state of the art of technologies for persons with dementia regarding issues on development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics in 3 fields of application of technologies: (1) support with managing everyday life, (2) support with participating in pleasurable and meaningful activities, and (3) support with dementia health and social care provision. The study also aimed to identify gaps in the evidence and challenges for future research.
methodsReviews of literature and expert opinions were used in our study. Literature searches were conducted on usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, and ethics using PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases with no time limit. Selection criteria in our selected technology fields were reviews in English for community-dwelling persons with dementia. Regarding deployment issues, searches were done in Health Technology Assessment databases.
resultsAccording to our results, persons with dementia want to be included in the development of technologies; there is little research on the usability of assistive technologies; various benefits are reported but are mainly based on low-quality studies; barriers to deployment of technologies in dementia care were identified, and ethical issues were raised by researchers but often not studied. Many challenges remain such as including the target group more often in development, performing more high-quality studies on usability and effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, creating and having access to high-quality datasets on existing technologies to enable adequate deployment of technologies in dementia care, and ensuring that ethical issues are considered an important topic for researchers to include in their evaluation of assistive technologies.
conclusionsBased on these findings, various actions are recommended for development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics of assistive and health technologies across Europe. These include avoiding replication of technology development that is unhelpful or ineffective and focusing on how technologies succeed in addressing individual needs of persons with dementia. Furthermore, it is suggested to include these recommendations in national and international calls for funding and assistive technology research programs. Finally, practitioners, policy makers, care insurers, and care providers should work together with technology enterprises and researchers to prepare strategies for the implementation of assistive technologies in different care settings. This may help future generations of persons with dementia to utilize available and affordable technologies and, ultimately, to benefit from them.
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