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P2‐406: Measuring of the onset of Alzheimer's Disease and other cognitive dementias in sample surveys: identifying early signs of impairment and the impacts of proxy responses on follow up interviews
Author(s) -
McNally James
Publication year - 2011
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.2011.05.1279
Subject(s) - proxy (statistics) , cognition , dementia , psychology , longitudinal study , categorization , gerontology , population , disease , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , machine learning , computer science
Society in three focus group session with persons with dementia and their spouses. In these sessions existing websites, which had older users are a target group were discussed. Themes discussed were about the design of the website as use of colors, legibility and usability. Based on this, a demonstration website was made and discussed and judged by the participants. Results: A total of six older adults participated in these focus group sessions. Participants prefer a website which is easy to print, navigation should be on maximal three levels Menu of the website should be on the left site of the page. Participants dislike the use of photographs in order to increase ambiance and pictograms, because these do not provide any additional value to the information given. Conclusions: Participants prefer a website to be accessible just as reading a book. The results were partial in accordance with the results reported in the literature for web design for persons with cognitive disabilities. The results in this report concern the design of the website only. This design process was executed in a single experiment. Therefore, the findings should be interpreted with caution. Further study is scheduled to examine the usefulness of the designed website.