Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
Apr 11, 2016
Assistive technologies, such as robots, have proven to be useful in a social context and to improve the quality of life for people with dementia (PwD). This study aims to show how the engagement between two social robots and PwD in Australian residen...
BACKGROUND: A variety of group activities is promoted for nursing home (NH) residents with dementia with the aim to reduce apathy and to increase engagement and social interaction. Investigating behaviors related to these outcomes could produce insig...
Psychogeriatrics : the official journal of the Japanese Psychogeriatric Society
Oct 29, 2015
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested that visiting dogs can have positive effects on elderly people in nursing homes. We wanted to study the effects of biweekly dog visits on sleep patterns and the psychiatric well-being of elderly people.
The study of engagement in people with dementia is important to determine the effectiveness of interventions that aim to promote meaningful activity. However, the assessment of engagement for people with dementia in relation to our current work that ...
INTRODUCTION: Apathy, agitated behaviours, loneliness and depression are common consequences of dementia. This trial aims to evaluate the effect of a robotic animal on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in people with dementia living ...
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Jun 18, 2015
OBJECTIVES: To examine effects on symptoms of agitation and depression in nursing home residents with moderate to severe dementia participating in a robot-assisted group activity with the robot seal Paro.
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
May 13, 2015
Computer-aided diagnosis of dementia using a support vector machine (SVM) can be improved with feature selection. The relevance of individual features can be quantified from the SVM weights as a significance map (p-map). Although these p-maps previou...
Algorithmic estimations of dementia status are widely used in public health and epidemiologic research, but inadequate algorithm performance across racial/ethnic groups has been a barrier. We present improvements in the accuracy of group-specific "pr...
International journal of neural systems
Sep 1, 2025
The reduction of dimensionality in machine learning and artificial intelligence problems constitutes a pivotal element in the simplification of models, significantly enhancing both their performance and execution time. This process enables the genera...
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