Technologies to support community-dwelling persons with dementia: A position paper on issues regarding development, usability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, deployment, and ethics

JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Meiland, Franka ^a   Innes, Anthea ^b   Mountain, Gail ^c   Robinson, Louise ^d   van der Roest, Henriëtte ^a   García Casal, J Antonio ^e   Gove, Dianne ^f   Thyrian, Jochen René ^g   Evans, Shirley ^h   Dröes, Rose Marie ^a   Kelly, Fiona ⁱ   Kurz, Alexander ^j   Casey, Dympna ^k   Niak, Dorota Szcze ^l   Dening, Tom ^m   Craven, Michael P ^m   Span, Marijke ⁿ   Felzmann, Heike ^k   Tsolaki, Magda ^o   Franco Martin, Manuel ^p  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Universities of Salford and Stirling UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INTRAS Foundation   (Spain)

^f ALZHEIMER EUROPE   (Luxembourg)

^g GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^k NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^l WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ WINDESHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^o ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Dementia; Diffusion of innovation; Ethics; Evaluation studies; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102515103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/rehab.6376     Document Type: Article

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