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Those suffering from mild dementia exhibit impairments of memory, thought and reasoning. It has been recognised that deployment of technological solutions to address such impairments may have a major positive impact on the quality of life and can be used to help perform daily life activities hence maintaining a level of independence. In this paper we present an overview of our current investigations into how technology can be used to improve the quality of life of the ageing person with mild dementia. Specifically, we detail the methodology adopted for our work, outline results attained from a series of workshops to identify user needs and finally present how these user needs have been mapped onto the design of home based assistive technologies.
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Nugent, C. et al. (2007). Home Based Assistive Technologies for People with Mild Dementia. In: Okadome, T., Yamazaki, T., Makhtari, M. (eds) Pervasive Computing for Quality of Life Enhancement. ICOST 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73035-4_7
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