Everyday Uses of Music Listening and Music Technologies by Caregivers and People with Dementia: Survey and Focus Group Study
Dianna Vidas, Romina Carrasco, Ryan M. Kelly, Jenny Waycott, Jeanette Tamplin, Kate McMahon, Libby M. Flynn, Phoebe A. Stretton-Smith, Tanara Vieira Sousa, Felicity A. Baker
Music is a valuable non-pharmacological tool that provides benefits for people with dementia, and there is interest in designing technologies to support music use in dementia care. To ensure music technologies are appropriately designed for supporting caregivers and people living with dementia, there remains a need to better understand how music is currently used in everyday care at home. We aimed to understand how people with dementia and their caregivers use music technologies in everyday caring, as well as challenges they experience using music and technology. This study used a mixed methods design. A survey was completed by 77 caregivers and people with dementia to understand their use of music and technology. Of these, 18 survey respondents (12 family caregivers, 6 people living with dementia) participated in focus groups about their experiences of using music and technology in care. Transcripts were analysed with reflexive thematic analysis. Most survey respondents used music often in their daily lives, reporting a range of music technologies such as CDs, radio, and streaming. Focus groups highlighted benefits and challenges of music technologies in everyday care. Participants used music and music technologies to regulate mood, provide joy, facilitate social connection, encourage reminiscence, provide continuity before and after diagnosis, and to make caregiving easier. Challenges of using music technology in care included difficulties staying up to date with evolving technology, and low self-efficacy for technology use expressed by people living with dementia. Evidently, people living with dementia and their caregivers use music technologies to support their everyday care needs. Results suggest opportunities to design technologies enabling easier access to music and supporting people living with dementia with recreational and therapeutic music listening and music-based activities.
CareMirror: Bringing Caregiver Wellbeing into the Dementia Care Ecosystem
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；OSF HealthCare（OSF医疗保健）；Indiana University Indianapolis（印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯分校）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校）
Balancing Caregiving and Self-Care: Exploring Mental Health Needs of Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Indiana University Indianapolis（印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯分校）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校）
Mapping Caregiver Needs to AI Chatbot Design: Strengths and Gaps in Mental Health Support for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Indiana University Indianapolis（印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯分校）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校）
A Taxonomy of Mental Health and Technology Needs for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science（Siebel计算与数据科学学院）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Department of Psychology（心理学系）；Illinois Neurological Institute（伊利诺伊神经科学研究所）；Department of Human-Centered Computing（以人为中心计算系）；Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences（马歇尔大学信息与计算机科学学院）
An Interactive LLM-Based Simulator for Dementia-Related Activities of Daily Living
Worcester Polytechnic Institute（伍斯特理工学院）；University of California Davis（加州大学戴维斯分校）；MGH Institute of Health Professionals（麻省总医院健康专业学院）；University of New Hampshire（新罕布什尔大学）
Benchmarking Early Agitation Prediction in Community-Dwelling People with Dementia Using Multimodal Sensors and Machine Learning
KITE Research Institute（KITE研究机构）；Toronto Rehabilitation Institute（多伦多康复研究所）；University Health Network（大学健康网络）；Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing（劳伦斯布罗德利护理学院）；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；College of Engineering and Technology（工程与技术学院）；American University of the Middle East（中东美国大学）
Effects of Different Prompts on the Quality of GPT-4 Responses to Dementia Care Questions
University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学）；University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio（德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥健康科学中心）；Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校戴尔医学院）；School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh（匹兹堡大学计算与信息学院）；School of Nursing and School of Information, University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校护理学院与信息学院）
