Cognitive mobile games for memory impaired older adults

Merilampi, Sari; Sirkka, Andrew; Leino, Mirka; Koivisto, Antti; Finn, Enda

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“…The two simple mobile games used in this study were originally developed in Finland, by a multidisciplinary team including game designers, programmers, usability experts and memory rehabilitation professionals, as well as elderly test users. As the games are described in more detail in another article [17], only a brief description is given in this article to help the reader to understand the results.…”

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“…The authors of the Finnish study presented the Finnish game trial [17], in which the same serious games were played five minutes of each game daily for three months, after which the gaming progress was investigated. The participants were 10 elderly individuals (male and female), with an average age of 90, living in an elderly care home in Pori, Finland.…”

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“…Thus, user experience includes all the users' emotions, beliefs, preferences, perceptions, physical and psychological responses, behaviours and accomplishments that occur before, during, and after use [31]. In both Finland [17] and China [15,16], the trials have indicated positive user experiences for the tested mobile memory games.…”

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“…The games investigated in this study were originally developed for the Finnish elderly and tested in gaming trials in Finnish elderly care homes [17]. The results were extremely positive, demonstrating positive user experiences, increased social interaction, and positive feelings towards rehabilitation effectiveness.…”

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Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care

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The purpose of this paper was to create service models for cognitively stimulating mobile games and incorporate them into Finnish and Chinese elderly care. The implementation involved the use of two different mobile games as part of the everyday lives of older adults in care homes in Finland (3 months) and China (6 months). Although a large number of publications examine serious games in elderly care, there are rather few publications related to the practical implementation within the elderly care processes. In general, rehabilitation orientated games should incorporate entertainment (motivation) and relevant therapeutic content (rehabilitation) in order to be effective. Regardless of the game design, successful implementation of the games in elderly care is paramount to benefit the end user. In this paper, two mobile games were investigated as a case study. To investigate the therapeutic content of the games, the game outcomes (game scores and time stamps) were automatically recorded to facilitate analysis of the participant’s progress during the trial. To investigate motivation, user feedback was collected through observation of the game trials and by interviewing the nursing staff and the participants (test group). The gaming service implementation was designed in collaboration with the nursing staff and researchers, according to an experimentation-driven approach, in which the service model ideas were tested by the professionals before piloting. In both countries, the players and the nursing staff found the games showed potential as self-managed rehabilitation tools. Other significant effects of gameplay were enhanced recreation and self-managed activity level. Despite cultural differences, the gaming experience was amazingly similar and improvements in game scores were also observed during the trial in both countries. The biggest difference between the pilots was the implementation process, which led to the development of two different service models that are reported in this paper. In Finland, the games were embedded into the care practices and the nursing staff were responsible for the piloting. In China, the games were independent of the care process and an external service provider (the researcher) managed the piloting. The findings imply that service design in different cultures should be carefully considered when implementing new digital services.

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“…Uno de los principales objetivos de Stimulus PRO es el de potenciar la presencia de la tecnología en el campo de la estimulación cognitiva en relación a terapias no farmacológicas, trata de complementar las terapias tradicionales realizadas con lápiz, papel y fichas, las nuevas tecnologías permiten desarrollar técnicas que favorecen tanto la intervención como el seguimiento y la motivación de los pacientes. Los soportes digitales permiten una mayor interacción, proporcionan más dinamismo a la hora de configurar y manipular la dificultad de las tareas, ofrecen la información de manera inmediata y de un modo atractivo, y las correcciones se hacen de forma automática, todo esto hace que el paciente perciba la realización de los entrenamientos como algo lúdico y divertido, impactando directamente en los resultados, que suelen ser mejores que con lápiz y papel (Kaci Fairchild & Scogin, 2010;Merilampi, Sirkka, Leino, Koivisto, & Finn, 2014;Polzer & Gewald, 2017).…”

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Herramienta de apoyo para personas con limitaciones comunicativas utilizando un lenguaje visual = Support tool for people with communicative limitations using a visual language

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RESUMENLa presente tesis doctoral se desarrolla en el marco de los lenguajes visuales como recurso para satisfacer necesidades específicas de determinados grupos de personas que, bien por cuestiones de salud o bien por discapacidades físicas, presentan limitaciones a la hora de comunicarse mediante el lenguaje oral o el lenguaje escrito, se trata de individuos con necesidades especiales y en situación de dependencia que necesitan de otros recursos para minimizar y superar las dificultades comunicativas a las que se enfrentan.El colectivo concreto en el que se centra esta tesis es el de personas que padecen enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) y sus cuidadores; para la elaboración de la tesis se ha trabajado desde varios escenarios, como el estudio de los síntomas de esta demencia, la búsqueda de información sobre la evolución de la misma, el estudio de las aplicaciones informáticas existentes que pretenden mejorar la calidad de vida de este colectivo, y la colaboración directa con profesionales del sector y pacientes para desarrollar un prototipo de herramienta que fortalezca la memoria, favorezca y aumente la interacción comunicativa, y facilite al profesional o cuidador que explote la herramienta la ejecución de sesiones de entrenamiento productivas sobre un interfaz de usuario sencillo y amigable. Para comprobar la eficiencia del prototipo desarrollado se han realizado varias sesiones de prueba que han sido ejecutadas y evaluadas por un profesional.Mediante el análisis de los resultados obtenidos en estas sesiones se ha comprobado que este tipo de herramientas pueden servir para diseñar y crear ejercicios de estimulación cognitiva adaptados a las necesidades de los usuarios, de forma que éstos obtengan un mayor beneficio de estas sesiones, redundando en una mejora de su calidad de vida. ABSTRACTThe present doctoral thesis is developed within the framework of visual languages as a resource to meet the specific needs of certain groups of people who, either because of health issues or because of physical disabilities, have limitations when communicating through oral language or written language, it is about individuals with special needs and in a dependency situation who need other resources to minimize and overcome the communication difficulties they face.The specific group in which this thesis focuses is that of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers; for its elaboration this thesis has been worked from various scenarios, such as the study of the symptoms of this dementia, the search for information on its evolution, the study of the existing computer applications that aim to improve the quality of life of this group of people, and the direct collaboration with professionals of the sector and patients to develop a prototype tool that strengthens the memory, favour and increase the communicative interaction , and provide the professional or caregiver who exploits the tool the execution of productive training sessions on a simple and friendly user interface. To verify the efficiency of the develop...

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Ambient assisted living technology‐mediated interventions for older people and their informal carers in the context of healthy ageing: A scoping review

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Background and aims There is a growing demand for health and social care services to provide technology‐mediated interventions that promote the health and well‐being of older people with health or care needs and of their informal carers. The objectives of this study were to scope and review the nature and extent of prior intervention studies involving ambient assisted living technology‐mediated interventions for older people and their informal carers, and how and in what ways (if any) the goals and aims of these interventions reflected the domains of the World Health Organization framework for healthy ageing. Methods We conducted a scoping review. Data were collected between June and October 2018 with an updated search in October 2020. A total of 85 articles were eligible for inclusion. Results Nine categories described the aims and content of the included studies. The healthy ageing domain “Ability to meet basic needs” was mirrored in four categories, whereas “Ability to contribute to society” was not addressed at all. Conclusion The ways in which domains of healthy ageing are mirrored suggest that there is an emphasis on individual factors and individual responsibility, and a lack of attention given to broader, environmental factors affecting healthy ageing. Only a few of the studies used a dyadic approach when assessing health outcomes concerning older people and their informal carers.

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Cognitive mobile games for memory impaired older adults

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Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care

Implementing Mobile Games into Care Services—Service Models for Finnish and Chinese Elderly Care

Herramienta de apoyo para personas con limitaciones comunicativas utilizando un lenguaje visual = Support tool for people with communicative limitations using a visual language

Ambient assisted living technology‐mediated interventions for older people and their informal carers in the context of healthy ageing: A scoping review

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