Daily time management in dementia: qualitative interviews with persons with dementia and their significant others.

Background: Persons with dementia encounter time-related problems and significant others often need to provide support in daily time management and use of time assistive technology (AT). Further research has been requested on how time AT for persons with dementia affects the situation of significant others. Moreover, there are a few previous qualitative studies on the experiences of time AT by persons with dementia.

Assessing time processing ability and daily time management in persons with dementia: Psychometric properties of three instruments.

Introduction: Persons with dementia experience time-related problems, but there is a lack of instruments evaluating their time processing ability and daily time management. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the instruments KaTid®-Senior measuring time processing ability, and Time-S© Senior and Time-Proxy© measuring daily time management for persons with dementia.

Methods: Persons with dementia (n = 53) and their significant others (n = 49) participated in the study.

Associations between Time Processing Ability, Daily Time Management, and Dementia Severity.

This study investigated associations between time processing ability (TPA), daily time management (DTM), and dementia severity. Persons with dementia (PwDs) ( = 53) and their significant others ( = 49) participated in this cross-sectional study. Bivariate analyses were used to investigate associations between TPA and DTM and the dementia severity.

Lack of time and dependence on significant others: Occupational therapists´ experiences of prescribing time assistive technology for persons with dementia.

: There is lack of knowledge on how occupational therapists (OTs) assess daily time management (DTM) for persons with dementia (PwDs) and on which aspects affect prescription of time assistive technology (AT).: To explore OTs' experiences of assessing the need for and prescribing time AT for PwDs.: Focus group interviews with OTs that prescribe time AT for PwDs analyzed via qualitative content analysis.

Sensor technology more than a support.

Background: This interview study is a part of a project that evaluated sensor technology as a support in everyday activities for patients with memory impairment.

Aim: To explore patients with memory impairment and their partners' experiences of using sensor technology in their homes.

Methods And Material: Five patients with memory impairment after stroke and three partners were interviewed.

First steps in designing an all-in-one ICT-based device for persons with cognitive impairment: evaluation of the first mock-up.

Background: This project Smart Assisted Living involving Informal careGivers++ (SALIG) intends to develop an ICT-based device for persons with cognitive impairment combined with remote support possibilities for significant others and formal caregivers. This paper presents the identification of the target groups' needs and requirements of such device and the evaluation of the first mock-up, demonstrated in a tablet.

Methods: The inclusive design method that includes end-users in the design process was chosen.