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Caregiving is the act of providing assistance to an individual unable to perfom some daily living activities. Caregiving can be either paid or unpaid. An informal caregiver is an unpaid caregiver to an older, sick, or disabled family member or friend on a daily basis. Informal caregiving is associated with increased physical, mental, and emotional stressors contributing to poor health outcomes, caregiver...
With an increase in the population of older adults, the number of cases with dementia also increases. People living with dementia (PLwD) exhibit various behavioral and psychological experiences; agitation and aggression being the most common. Aggressive patients with dementia can harm themselves, other patients and the staff. In the past, researchers have used actigraphy to detect incidences of agitation...
Virtual research environments (VRE) allow to collaboratively work on research projects. Typically, they provide a web-based interface to share documents and data for analysis. However, currently there is no support for earlier stages of research projects in the context of behaviour monitoring such as data collection. With the rise of solutions based on information and communication technologies (ICT),...
The standard dementia screening tool Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the standard dementia staging tool Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR) are prominent methods for answering questions whether a person might have dementia and about the dementia severity respectively. These methods are time consuming and require well-educated personnel to administer. Conversely, cognitive tests, such as...
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