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The Smart Dementia Care Project, Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle Nov 2022

The Smart Dementia Care Project, Dympna O'Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle

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Monitoring Activities Of Daily Living For Maintaining Independent Living In Dementia, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Dympna O'Sullivan, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle Oct 2022

Monitoring Activities Of Daily Living For Maintaining Independent Living In Dementia, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Dympna O'Sullivan, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle

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Our ability to live independent meaningful lives depends on our ability to perform various activities and to maintain our cognitive functions. Maintaining independent living is important for persons with dementia, it increases selfworth and allows to remain independent and in their own homes for longer. We describe the activities established as being important for the maintenance of independent living, and methods for monitoring these activities using technology.


Co-Design To Support Engagement In Activities Of Daily Living And Meaningful Activities For People Living With Dementia, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle, Ann Marron, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Dympna O'Sullivan Jul 2022

Co-Design To Support Engagement In Activities Of Daily Living And Meaningful Activities For People Living With Dementia, Michael Wilson, Julie Doyle, Ann Marron, Jonathan Turner, Ciaran Nugent, Dympna O'Sullivan

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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 and engage in meaningful activities. The Smart Dementia Care project aims to establish an understanding of how best to design digital tools that persons with dementia and their carers will find useful and usable for care planning and goal setting. This paper discusses the first phase of this project and describes how co-design is being used to support engagement in activities of daily living and meaningful activities for people living with the early stages of dementia, …


Meaningful Activity Replacement Recommendations In Dementia, Jonathan Turner, Michael Wilson, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Julie Doyle, Dympna O'Sullivan May 2022

Meaningful Activity Replacement Recommendations In Dementia, Jonathan Turner, Michael Wilson, Ciaran Nugent, Damon Berry, Julie Doyle, Dympna O'Sullivan

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Exercise of meaningful activities is important for people living with dementia, both for quality of life and to maintain the necessary basic activities of daily living. A method is proposed for recommendation of replacements for lost meaningful activities that accounts for the need to maintain activities of daily living.