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F5‐03‐04: Cognitive prosthetics in Alzheimer's disease: A trial of a novel cell phoned‐ based reminding system
Author(s) -
Craig David
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.543
Subject(s) - laptop , cognition , phone , dementia , usability , usable , psychology , population , computer science , multimedia , human–computer interaction , medicine , disease , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health , pathology , operating system
that paired six professional older adult actors with six older adults with moderate-to-severe AD. The actors trained on video footage of people with AD engaging in the activity of handwashing. The actors completed handwashing for two conditions: 1) 20 trials with assistance from a human caregiver; and 2) 20 trials with assistance from an automated guidance system, specifically the COACH prompting system. Video clips of both the actors and people with AD performing handwashing with caregiver assistance were randomly shown to 11 professional caregivers, who were asked to rate their believability. Results: Statistical analysis did not find a significant difference between the believability of the actor or person with AD groups, thus indicating that the actors were as believable as the actual older adults with AD. In addition, analysis of the trials where the automated guidance system was used showed similar reactions to the technology from both groups. Conclusions: This pilot work suggests that using professional older adult actors to optimize assistive technologies for older adults with dementia may constitute a viable alternative to clinical trials alone. If so, this approach could result in significant savings in terms of development time, costs, and demands on the clinical population.