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Quality of Life Tools to Inform Co-design in the Development of Assistive Technologies for People with Dementia and Their Carers

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Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities (IWAAL 2014)

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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.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Electrical Systems & Optics Research Division, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

    Michael P. Craven

  2. Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, The Institute of Mental Health, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK

    Maria Laura De Filippis & Tom Dening

  3. The Institute of Mental Health, NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK

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

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK

    Leandro Pecchia

  2. School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, The Gateway, LE1 9BH, Leicester, UK

    Liming Luke Chen

  3. Institute, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, Computer Science Research, Jordanstown Campus, Shore Road, BT37 0QB, Newtownabbey, UK

    Chris Nugent

  4. Escuela Superior de Informática, Castilla La Mancha University, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad, Real, Spain

    José Bravo

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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 Carers. In: Pecchia, L., Chen, L.L., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities. IWAAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_57

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