Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer

Craven, Michael P.; De Filippis, Maria Laura; Dening, Tom

Abstract

A number of tools exist to measure quality of life (QoL) for people with dementia (PwD). A selection of existing measures are summarised, obtained from an online literature survey, comprising of scales administered either by healthcare professionals with the PwD (self-report) and/or their carers (proxy report) or from observation. It is suggested that a combination of such tools with user satisfaction questionnaires may provide a way to approach the problem of evaluating Assistive Technology (AT) solutions or inform co-design of technological solutions with PwD and their carers.

Citation

Craven, M. P., De Filippis, M. L., & Dening, T. (2014). Quality of life tools to inform co-design in the development of assistive technologies for people with dementia and their carer. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8868, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Feb 12, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 12, 2016
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Electronic ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8868
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57
• Keywords: Assistive technologies, Telecare, Ambient assisted living, User experience, Dementia, Quality of life measures, Health technology assessment
• Public URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/31659
• Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-13105-4_57
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• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57; ; ; Chapter in: Ambient assisted living and daily activities : 6th International Work-Conference, IWAAL 2014, Belfast, UK, December 2-5, 2014: proceedings ISBN 978-3-319-13104-7