Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Rostock, Germany.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "V. Erspamer", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Alzheimers Dement. 2016 Jun;12(6):695-707. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2015.11.003. Epub 2016 Jan 14.
Information and communication technology (ICT) is potentially mature enough to empower outdoor and social activities in dementia. However, actual ICT-based devices have limited functionality and impact, mainly limited to safety. What is an ideal operational framework to enhance this field to support outdoor and social activities?
Review of literature and cross-disciplinary expert discussion.
A situation-aware ICT requires a flexible fine-tuning by stakeholders of system usability and complexity of function, and of user safety and autonomy. It should operate by artificial intelligence/machine learning and should reflect harmonized stakeholder values, social context, and user residual cognitive functions. ICT services should be proposed at the prodromal stage of dementia and should be carefully validated within the life space of users in terms of quality of life, social activities, and costs.
The operational framework has the potential to produce ICT and services with high clinical impact but requires substantial investment.
信息和通信技术(ICT)已经发展得足够成熟,可以为痴呆症患者的户外活动和社交提供支持。然而,基于实际 ICT 的设备功能有限,影响也有限,主要局限于安全性。那么,什么样的理想运作框架才能增强这一领域,以支持户外活动和社交呢?
文献回顾和跨学科专家讨论。
情境感知型 ICT 需要利益相关者灵活调整系统可用性和功能复杂性,以及用户安全性和自主性。它应该通过人工智能/机器学习运行,并应反映利益相关者的协调价值观、社会背景以及用户残留认知功能。ICT 服务应在痴呆症的前驱期提出,并应根据生活质量、社交活动和成本,在用户的生活空间内对其进行仔细验证。
该运作框架具有产生具有高临床影响的 ICT 和服务的潜力,但需要大量投资。