ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
The acceptability, adoption, and feasibility of a music application developed using participatory design for home-dwelling persons with dementia and their caregivers. The "Alight" app in the LIVE@Home.Path trial.
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LIVE@Home.Path: a Mixed Method, Stepped Wedge and Randomized Controlled Trial Innovating the Clinical Pathway for Home-dwelling Persons With Dementia and Their Families
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Patient-Related Barriers to Digital Technology Adoption in Alzheimer Disease: Systematic Review.JMIR aging · 2025Pooled it
- Musicotherapy mobile applications: what level of evidence and potential role in psychiatric care? A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Optimal allocation to treatment sequences in individually randomized stepped-wedge designs with attrition.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2023Trial
- Healthcare applications for elderly: a scoping review and a practical roadmap for developing health apps.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Article
- Patient and Public Involvement in Technology-Related Dementia Research: Scoping Review.JMIR aging · 2024Article
- Technology-Enabled Recreation and Leisure Programs and Activities for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: Rapid Scoping Review.JMIR neurotechnology · 2024Review
- Usability and Acceptability of Social Robot Pets Among Community-Dwelling Veterans Living With Dementia and Their Caregivers.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementiasArticle
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Abstract
Background: Music interventions for persons with dementia can improve health and interaction with caregivers, yet the reach is often restricted to institutions. We describe the participatory design process of a prototype music application for patients affiliated with a gerontopsychiatric hospital and evaluate the acceptability, adoption, and feasibility of use for dyads of home-dwelling persons with dementia and their informal caregivers. Methods: The application "Alight" was developed following an iterative, expert-driven participatory design approach, which includes a requirement elicitation phase and two rounds of prototyping and testing in real-world settings. End users and stakeholders were involved in all steps, that is, workshops, interviews, field observation, ethnographic inquiries, and beta testing sessions with music therapists, patients, and caregivers in collaboration with a commercial music and technology company. The last prototyping and testing took place in the LIVE@Home.Path trial, a stepped-wedge multicomponent randomized controlled trial to improve resource utilization and caregiver burden in municipal dementia care during 2019-2021. Results: Mean age of the person with dementia in the LIVE@Home.Path trial was 82 years, 62% were female, and the majority had Alzheimer's dementia (44%) of mild severity (71%). Sixty-three dyads were offered Alight in the multicomponent intervention, of which 13% ( Conclusion: The feasibility and adoption of the application were high and accepting dyads did not differ on demographic and clinical variables from those not reached. This suggests a high potential for utilization in dementia care. This study contributes methodologically to the field of participatory design and mHealth interventions by demonstrating a specific design approach that throughout the process successfully involved researchers, industry partners, health care practitioners, and end users. Clinical trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04043364.
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