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State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia

State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia

Clifton Phua, Patrice Claude Roy, Hamdi Aloulou, Jit Biswas, Andrei Tolstikov, Victor Siang-Fook Foo, Aung-Phyo-Wai Aung, Weimin Huang, Mohamed Ali Feki, Jayachandran Maniyeri, Alvin Kok-Weng Chu, Duangui Xu
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 20
ISBN13: 9781466644229|ISBN10: 1466644222|EISBN13: 9781466644236
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch085
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Phua, Clifton, et al. "State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia." Assistive Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 1606-1625. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch085

APA

Phua, C., Roy, P. C., Aloulou, H., Biswas, J., Tolstikov, A., Foo, V. S., Aung, A., Huang, W., Feki, M. A., Maniyeri, J., Chu, A. K., & Xu, D. (2014). State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Assistive Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1606-1625). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch085

Chicago

Phua, Clifton, et al. "State-of-the-Art Assistive Technology for People with Dementia." In Assistive Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1606-1625. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4422-9.ch085

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Abstract

The work is motivated by the expanding demand and limited supply of long-term personal care for People with Dementia (PwD), and assistive technology as an alternative. Telecare allows PwD to live in the comfort of their homes for a longer time. It is challenging to have remote care in smart homes with ambient intelligence, using devices, networks, and activity and plan recognition. Our scope is limited to mostly related work on existing execution environments in smart homes, and activity and plan recognition algorithms which can be applied to PwD living in smart homes. PwD and caregiver needs are addressed in a more holistic healthcare approach, domain challenges include doctor validation and erroneous behaviour, and technical challenges include high maintenance and low accuracy. State-of-the-art devices, networks, activity and plan recognition for physical health are presented; ideas for developing mental training for mental health and social networking for social health are explored. There are two implications of this work: more needs to be done for assistive technology to improve PwD’s mental and social health, and assistive software is not highly accurate and persuasive yet. Our work applies not only to PwD, but also the elderly without dementia and people with intellectual disabilities.

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