ArticleJournal of healthcare informatics research2021
A Pilot Study to Detect Agitation in People Living with Dementia Using Multi-Modal Sensors.
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- Aesthetic Experience in the Acceptance of Wearable Technology for People With Dementia: Critical Interpretive Synthesis.JMIR aging · 2025Pooled it
- Digital biomarkers for early agitation detection in dementia: a scoping review of emerging wearable and smart technologies for personalized care.Frontiers in neurologyPooled it
- Individualised Music Playlist Based on the Iso-Principle for De-Escalating Agitation in Older People With Dementia: Protocol for a RCT.Nursing open · 2026Article
- Implementation Outcomes for Agitation Detection Technologies in People with Dementia: A Systematic Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- An interpretable machine learning tool for in-home monitoring of agitation episodes in people living with dementia: a proof-of-concept study.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Noninvasive monitoring technologies to identify discomfort and distressing symptoms in persons with limited communication at the end of life: a scoping review.BMC palliative care · 2024Article
- Undersampling and cumulative class re-decision methods to improve detection of agitation in people with dementia.Biomedical engineering letters · 2024Article
- TIHM: An open dataset for remote healthcare monitoring in dementia.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Privacy-protecting behaviours of risk detection in people with dementia using videos.Biomedical engineering online · 2023Article
- Examining Stress and Residual Symptoms in Remitted and Partially Remitted Depression Using a Wearable Electrodermal Activity Device: A Pilot Study.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2023Article
- Wearable multimodal sensors for the detection of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia using personalized machine learning models.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2022Article
- Toward Quantification of Agitation in People With Dementia Using Multimodal Sensing.Innovation in aging · 2022Article
- Wrist accelerometry for monitoring dementia agitation behaviour in clinical settings: A scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
People living with dementia (PLwD) often exhibit behavioral and psychological symptoms, such as episodes of agitation and aggression. Agitated behavior in PLwD causes distress and increases the risk of injury to both patients and caregivers. In this paper, we present the use of a multi-modal wearable device that captures motion and physiological indicators to detect agitation in PLwD. We identify features extracted from sensor signals that are the most relevant for agitation detection. We hypothesize that combining multi-modal sensor data will be more effective to identify agitation in PLwD in comparison to a single sensor. The results of this unique pilot study are based on 17 participants' data collected during 600 days from PLwD admitted to a Specialized Dementia Unit. Our findings show the importance of using multi-modal sensor data and highlight the most significant features for agitation detection.
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