ArticleHong Kong journal of occupational therapy : HKJOT2021
The application of an information support robot to reduce agitation in an older adult with Alzheimer's disease living alone in a community dwelling: a case study.
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- Non-Pharmacological Interventions for People With Dementia Who Live Alone: A Systematic Review.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Activity Recognition from Daily-Life Sounds Using Unsupervised Learning with Dirichlet Multinomial Mixture Models.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Living alone with dementia is a neglected source of inequality: findings from a scoping review of research evidence.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Inter- and intra-rater reliability of cognitive assessment conducted by assistive robot for older adults living in the community: a preliminary study.Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society · 2025Article
- Impact of digital assistive technologies on the quality of life for people with dementia: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
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Abstract
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backgroundAgitation is a common behaviour of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). Although healing robots have previously been used for alleviating agitation for people with dementia in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, its effects remain unclear whether an information-support robot capable of disseminating information with user needs may have similar effects when it is applied in community dwellings. This study was to investigate the effects of information-support robots for reducing agitation in older people with AD residing alone in community-dwellings.
methodsOne participant with AD who lived alone in a community-dwelling was recruited. Participant's frequencies, durations, and time courses of four patterns of agitation at home at baseline and during intervention were analysed. In this study, agitation was defined as: (a) restlessness going to the corridor (RLtoC), (b) restlessness going to the toilet (RLtoT), (c) restlessness going to the entrance (RLtoE), and (d) restlessness going to multiple places (RLtoMP). In the intervention phase, the information-support robot disseminated daily schedule or date information to the participant.
resultsRLtoC and RLtoMP were significantly reduced in frequency during the intervention. The durations of each episode of RLtoT and RLtoMP in the intervention were slightly reduced than those at the baseline. There were no differences in time courses of episodes of RLtoC and RLtoMP after the intervention.
conclusionThis case study showed that information-support robot was useful to alleviate agitation of an older adult with AD living alone in a community-dwelling. Further study is warranted.
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