School of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
PLoS One. 2021 Jul 19;16(7):e0254952. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254952. eCollection 2021.
The prevalence of persons living with dementia and at risk of going missing is rising. In this study, we engaged persons living with dementia, care partners, police services, search and rescue organizations, and health and social service providers to develop Community ASAP, a mobile alert system that engages community citizens, as volunteers, to look out for persons with dementia reported missing. We completed three phases of development and evaluation of the usability and functionality of the alert system with stakeholders in three Canadian provinces. In this paper we describe features of the Community ASAP and the findings of these evaluation phases.
患有痴呆症和有走失风险的人数正在增加。在这项研究中，我们让痴呆症患者、护理伙伴、警察部门、搜救组织以及卫生和社会服务提供者参与进来，开发了社区 ASAP，这是一个移动警报系统，它动员社区公民作为志愿者，寻找报告失踪的痴呆症患者。我们在加拿大三个省的利益相关者中完成了该警报系统的可用性和功能性的三个开发和评估阶段。本文介绍了社区 ASAP 的特点以及这些评估阶段的结果。
