Promoting Reminiscences with Virtual Reality Headsets: A Pilot Study with People with Dementia
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This study aimed to explore the feasibility and effects of promoting reminiscences, using virtual reality (VR) headsets for viewing 360° videos with personal relevance, with people with dementia. A study with a mixed methods design was conducted with nine older adults diagnosed with dementia. Interventions consisted of four sessions, in which the participants' engagement, psychological and behavioral symptoms, and simulation sickness symptoms were evaluated. Neuropsychiatric symptomatology and quality of life were measured pre- and post-intervention. Caregivers were interviewed regarding the effect of the approach. In most cases, participants appeared to enjoy the sessions, actively explored the 360° environment, and shared memories associated with the depicted locations, often spontaneously. There were no cases of significant increases in simulator sickness and psychological and behavioral symptoms during sessions, with only some instances of minor eyestrain, fullness of head, anxiety, irritability, and agitation being detected. Although there were no significant changes in the measured outcomes after intervention, the caregivers assessed the experience as potentially beneficial for most participants. In this study, promoting reminiscences with VR headsets was found to be a safe and engaging experience for people with dementia. However, future studies are required to better understand the added value of immersion, using VR, in reminiscence therapy.
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Participants were seen responding both verbally and non-verbally to narration, staff questions, and the experiences themselves.
“Participants were seen responding both verbally and non-verbally to narration, staff questions, and the experiences themselves (Coelho et al., 2020).”
From Facilitators and Barriers to Using Virtual Reality and its Impact on Social Engagement in Aged Care Settings: A Scoping Review (2023) · cites this paper as Coelho et al., 2020
The Results (page not provided) describe participants talking about what they saw, pointing at parts of the VR environment, and communicating either spontaneously or after questions or prompts. The Data Collection section also says researchers assessed verbal and non-verbal reactions. These passages support responses to staff questions and the experiences themselves, but our copy does not establish that participants responded to narration. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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- Authors
- Coelho, T., Marques, C., Moreira, D., Soares, M., Portugal, P., Marques, A., Ferreira, A. R., Martins, S., & Fernandes, L.
- Affiliations
- Universidade do Porto (PT)
- Universidade Técnica do Porto (PT)
- Corresponding author
- Coelho, Tiago
- ORCID
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-12-12
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 9301
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7763810
- OpenAlex
- W3111901502
- Cited by
- 79
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13
- FWCI
- 6.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (UIDB/05210/2020, UIDB/4255/2020)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Conservation › Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Keywords
- dementia, reminiscence therapy, virtual reality, 360-degree video, immersive media, simulator sickness, quality of life, caregivers, older adults
- MeSH terms
- Virtual Reality, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Anxiety Disorders, Dementia, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Pilot Projects, Quality of Life
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