Trial reportBMC geriatrics2021
Placing assistive technology and telecare in everyday practices of people with dementia and their caregivers: findings from an embedded ethnography of a national dementia trial.
Trial report in BMC geriatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Adopting assistive technologies for the support and care of people with mild dementia living at home-Understanding the decision-making process: a qualitative study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Mental Health Care Guidelines for Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
- Sharing patient technology preferences with care networks: Stakeholders' views of the "Let's Talk Tech" decision aid for dementia care.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- DIALOGUE: Digital care technologies for social connection, care and support of older adults. Final Project Report.NIHR open research · 2025Article
- Developing assistive technology to support reminiscence therapy: a user-centered study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Making Video Games More Inclusive for People Living With Motor Neuron Disease: Scoping Review.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2024Article
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- The Role of Social Isolation on Mediating Depression and Anxiety among Primary Family Caregivers of Older Adults: A Two-Wave Mediation Analysis.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Impact of digital assistive technologies on the quality of life for people with dementia: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Technology for dementia care: what would good technology look like and do, from carers' perspectives?BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- How I want technology used in my care: Learning from documented choices of people living with dementia using a dyadic decision making tool.Informatics for health & social care · 2023Article
- Stakeholder's experiences of living and caring in technology-rich supported living environments for tenants living with dementia.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Preliminary Efficacy of Let's Talk Tech: Technology Use Planning for Dementia Care Dyads.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Partnering with people living with dementia and care partners in technology research and design: Reflections and recommendations.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2022Article
- Advance Planning for Technology Use in Dementia Care: Development, Design, and Feasibility of a Novel Self-administered Decision-Making Tool.JMIR aging · 2022Article
- Control Matters in Elder Care Technology:: Evidence and Direction for Designing It In.DIS. Designing Interactive Systems (Conference) · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPolicy makers and care providers see assistive technology and telecare as potential products to support people with dementia to live independently in their homes and communities. Previous research rarely examined how people with dementia and their caregivers actually use such technology. The study examined how and why people living with dementia and their caregivers used assistive technology and telecare in their own homes.
methodsThis study used an ethnographic design embedded within the NIHR-funded Assistive Technology and Telecare to maintain Independent Living At home for people with dementia (ATTILA) randomised controlled trial. We collected 208 h of observational data on situated practices of ten people with dementia and their ten caregivers. We used this data to construct extended cases to explain how technologies supported people with dementia in home and community settings.
resultsWe identified three themes: placing technology in care, which illustrates how people with dementia and caregivers 'fit' technology into their homes and routines; replacing care with technology, which shows how caregivers replaced normal care practices with ones mediated through technologies; and technology displacing care and everyday life, which highlights how technologies disrupted the everyday lives of people with dementia. DISCUSSION: This study exemplifies unintended and unanticipated consequences for assistive technology and telecare uptake in 'real world' community-based dementia care. It underlines the need to identify and map the context of technological provision over time within the changing lives of people with dementia and their caregivers.
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