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Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Dementia is a health and care priority globally. Caring for persons with dementia is a challenge and can lead to negative psychological, physiological and financial consequences for informal carers. Advances in technology have the potential to assist persons with dementia and their carer...

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Autores principales: Sriram, Vimal, Jenkinson, Crispin, Peters, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31196003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1169-0
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description BACKGROUND: Dementia is a health and care priority globally. Caring for persons with dementia is a challenge and can lead to negative psychological, physiological and financial consequences for informal carers. Advances in technology have the potential to assist persons with dementia and their carers, through assistive technology devices such as electronic medication dispensers, robotic devices trackers and motion detectors. However, little is known about carers’ experience and the impact of these technologies on them. This review aims to investigate the outcomes and experience of carers of persons with dementia, who live at home and use assistive technology. METHODS: A systematic search in seven databases and manual searches were carried out using pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify studies on carers of persons with dementia involving the use of assistive technology. The search identified 56 publications with quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method designs. RESULTS: The studies reported positive and negative findings and focused on a wide variety of assistive technology devices. There were large differences in the uses of assistive technology, outcome measures used and the quality of studies. Knowledge and acceptance, competence to use and ethical issues when using assistive technology were themes that emerged from the studies. Carers generally appreciated using assistive technology and their experience of use varied. CONCLUSIONS: The intention of this systematic review is to list and classify the various types of assistive technology used by carers of persons with dementia and explores the positive and negative aspects, knowledge, acceptance and ethical issues in the use of assistive technology by carers of persons with dementia. We recommend the use of a standard and person-centred system of classifying and naming assistive technology devices and systems and for future research efforts in assistive technology to incorporate a family/carer centred model. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO - CRD42017082268. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12877-019-1169-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-65674482019-06-17 Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review Sriram, Vimal Jenkinson, Crispin Peters, Michele BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Dementia is a health and care priority globally. Caring for persons with dementia is a challenge and can lead to negative psychological, physiological and financial consequences for informal carers. Advances in technology have the potential to assist persons with dementia and their carers, through assistive technology devices such as electronic medication dispensers, robotic devices trackers and motion detectors. However, little is known about carers’ experience and the impact of these technologies on them. This review aims to investigate the outcomes and experience of carers of persons with dementia, who live at home and use assistive technology. METHODS: A systematic search in seven databases and manual searches were carried out using pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify studies on carers of persons with dementia involving the use of assistive technology. The search identified 56 publications with quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method designs. RESULTS: The studies reported positive and negative findings and focused on a wide variety of assistive technology devices. There were large differences in the uses of assistive technology, outcome measures used and the quality of studies. Knowledge and acceptance, competence to use and ethical issues when using assistive technology were themes that emerged from the studies. Carers generally appreciated using assistive technology and their experience of use varied. CONCLUSIONS: The intention of this systematic review is to list and classify the various types of assistive technology used by carers of persons with dementia and explores the positive and negative aspects, knowledge, acceptance and ethical issues in the use of assistive technology by carers of persons with dementia. We recommend the use of a standard and person-centred system of classifying and naming assistive technology devices and systems and for future research efforts in assistive technology to incorporate a family/carer centred model. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO - CRD42017082268. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s12877-019-1169-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6567448/ /pubmed/31196003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1169-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review
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title_full Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review
title_fullStr Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review
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title_short Informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review
title_sort informal carers’ experience of assistive technology use in dementia care at home: a systematic review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31196003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1169-0
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