Print Email Facebook Twitter A digital platform for facilitating personalized dementia care in nursing homes Title A digital platform for facilitating personalized dementia care in nursing homes: Formative evaluation study Author Wang, G. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design) Albayrak, A. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design) Kortuem, Gerd (TU Delft Internet of Things) van der Cammen, T.J.M. (TU Delft Applied Ergonomics and Design) Date 2021 Abstract Background: Care personalization is key to the well-being of people with dementia according to person-centered care. With the development of the internet of things, a large quantity of personal data can be collected securely and reliably, which has the potential to facilitate care personalization for people with dementia. Yet, there are limited assistive technologies developed for this purpose, and the user acceptance of assistive technologies is low in nursing homes. Therefore, through a data-enabled design approach, a digital platform was developed for helping the care team in a nursing home to personalize dementia care, specifically in the management of behavioral and psychological dementia symptoms. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the digital platform in a real-life context with potential users from the following two aspects: (1) to explore if the digital platform could help with generating insights on the current state of each person with dementia and (2) to gather feedback on the digital platform from the care team. Methods: The digital platform was deployed in the nursing home for 7 weeks and the data collected were visualized and presented to the care team via the digital platform. The visualizations were analyzed by the researchers for pattern detection. Meanwhile, the care team was asked to examine the visualizations and were interviewed for the following: (1) if any insights and actions were generated from the examination, (2) the usefulness of the digital platform, and (3) the improvements they would like to see. Results: The data collected on the digital platform demonstrated its potential for pattern detection. Insights were generated by the care team and categorized into “client level,” “ward level,” and “team level.” The corresponding actions taken by the care team were classified into “investigation” and “implementation.” User acceptance varied across the care team, and three aspects of improvement for the digital platform were identified. Conclusions: By evaluating the digital platform, this study gained insights on applying data-enabled design for personalizing dementia care; besides, it offers future researchers some recommendations on how to integrate assistive technologies in the nursing home context. Subject Assistive technologyCare managementData visualizationsData-driven designData-enabled designHealth care designHuman-centered designInternet of thingsPeople with dementiaPerson-centered careOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b1ff1c8d-b8cb-45e9-9b46-870e28c2c7ac DOI https://doi.org/10.2196/25705 Source JMIR Formative Research, 5 (5) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 G. Wang, A. Albayrak, Gerd Kortuem, T.J.M. van der Cammen Files PDF document.pdf 2.38 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:b1ff1c8d-b8cb-45e9-9b46-870e28c2c7ac/datastream/OBJ/view