O3‐08‐06: The COACH: A real‐world efficacy study
Abstract
Globally the number of people living with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is expected to continue to rise. AD and other forms of dementia negatively affect quality of life; particularly when activities of daily living (ADL) become challenging or even impossible to complete. Intelligent assistive technologies (AT) pose one possible solution to ease the burden associated with ADL support, but few AT ever undergo real-world trials leading to low user acceptance and adoption. The COACH is an intelligent computer-based AT that has been shown in supervised clinical trials to support older adults with dementia through the ADL of hand washing by emulating caregiver guidance. An overhead camera tracks the user and communicates assistance - using audio and video prompts - when needed. This study presents the results of an efficacy study of the COACH in a real-world, community-based deployment. The COACH has been installed in a washroom at the Toronto Memory Program, a multidisciplinary, community based, medical facility in Toronto, Canada, specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The COACH is running in an unsupervised state, interacting with users when the task is not progressing. Video, currently being collected from the overhead camera, will be manually annotated to determine the system's efficacy. Data will be collected from approximately 300 study participants over a six month period from December 2011 to May 2012. The efficacy of the COAC…
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The COACH system was evaluated in ecological conditions.
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- Czarnuch, S., & Mihailidis, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Venue
- Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 4S_Part_12
- ISSN
- 1552-5260 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-5279
- OpenAlex
- W2068810522
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- 3
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- Citations by year
- 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 1
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- 0.98
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Alzheimer s & Dementia (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
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- coaches
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