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Digital life storybooks for people with dementia living in care homes: an evaluation

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Interventions in Aging, September 2016
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Title
Digital life storybooks for people with dementia living in care homes: an evaluation
Published in
Clinical Interventions in Aging, September 2016
DOI 10.2147/cia.s111097
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Ponnusamy Subramaniam, Bob Woods

Abstract

There is increasing interest in using information and communication technology to help older adults with dementia to engage in reminiscence work. Now, the feasibility of such approaches is beginning to be established. The purpose of this study was to establish an evidence-base for the acceptability and efficacy of using multimedia digital life storybooks with people with dementia in care homes, in comparison with conventional life storybooks, taking into account the perspectives of people with dementia, their relatives, and care staff. Participatory design was used to create a life story movie based on a previously completed conventional life storybook with six older adults with dementia (four females; mean age 82 years). Relatives were involved in helping the participant to provide additional information and materials for the digital life storybook. In this multiple case study design, both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used. For quantitative purposes, a set of questionnaires that had been completed three times before and after the conventional life storybook was developed were repeated 4 weeks after the life story movie was completed. Semistructured interview questions were designed to collect feedback from participants, relatives, and care staff. The result indicated that five of the six participants showed additional improvement in measures of quality of life and autobiographical memory. All participants showed improvement or stability in depression scores. Thematic analysis showed that, participants, relatives, and care home staff viewed digital life storybooks as a very useful tool triggering memories and (largely) positive emotions. Participants' case vignettes were presented to document the impact of digital life storybook.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 210 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 15%
Student > Bachelor 23 11%
Researcher 22 10%
Student > Postgraduate 12 6%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 50 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 49 23%
Psychology 36 17%
Social Sciences 22 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 7%
Computer Science 6 3%
Other 22 10%
Unknown 62 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2017.
All research outputs
#7,119,031
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#676
of 1,968 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#104,037
of 348,369 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Interventions in Aging
#21
of 57 outputs
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