Co-designing Assistive Technology with and for Persons Living with Dementia

Dympna O'Sullivan; Jonathan Turner; Siobhan O'Neill; Michael Wilson; Julie Doyle

doi:10.21427/6c0n-na96

Co-designing Assistive Technology with and for Persons Living with Dementia

Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Siobhan O'Neill, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle

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Abstract

Dementia is a chronic and progressive neurodegenerative illness, which can lead to significant difficulties in a person’s capacity to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) and engage in meaningful activities. There is an acute need, which digital health technologies can potentially fulfil, to provide proactive support for persons living with dementia (PLwD) and their caregivers. However, there is limited involvement of PLwD in the design of technology that could be used to support their personal plans for independent living at home. In this paper, we describe how we are employing a co-design methodology to support engagement in an assistive technology toolkit for managing ADLs for people living with the early stages of dementia.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21427/6c0n-na96
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	eTELEMED 2023 - Venice, Italy Duration: 24 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	eTELEMED 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Venice
Period	24/04/23 → 28/04/23
Other	The Fifteenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine

Keywords

Dementia
neurodegenerative illness
activities of daily living
digital health technologies
caregivers
co-design methodology
assistive technology
independent living

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