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Newest in this topic

  1. 'I'd be lost without my smartphone': a qualitative analysis of the use of smartphones and tablets by people living with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and their caregivers 2023-05-04
  2. An Unsupervised Data-Driven Anomaly Detection Approach for Adverse Health Conditions in People Living With Dementia: Cohort Study 2022-09-19

Studies

2 studies carry this tag.

Date range

2022 to 2023

Top journals

  • Aging & mental health 1
  • JMIR aging 1

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  1. 'I'd be lost without my smartphone': a qualitative analysis of the use of smartphones and tablets by people living with dementia, mild cognitive impairment, and their caregivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Aging & mental health 2023-05-04 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The lived experience of people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment emphasises the central role of smart devices in their lives, and the need for research to move beyond rehearsal of what is needed to co-production and evaluation of smart technology-based educational interventions.

  2. An Unsupervised Data-Driven Anomaly Detection Approach for Adverse Health Conditions in People Living With Dementia: Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. JMIR aging 2022-09-19 Cognitive tests and assessment

    We demonstrated its effectiveness over state-of-the-art methods on a real-world data set of 9363 days collected from 15 participant households by the UK Dementia Research Institute between August 2019 and July 2021.

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