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6. Some Design Proposals to Support Independent Life of the Elderlies with Mild Cognitive Impairments who Live Alone

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SAGARA, Jiro, TANEMURA, Rumi, NAGAO, Toru, NODA, Kazue, and OMORI, Kiyohiro

Subjects
IoT, Demientia, Independent life, MCI, Autocue, Education
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In Japan, the elderly persons will exceed 30% of population and the dementia will be more than 7 million in 2025. This means the one of five elderly persons will be dementia. Most of them will live in own house with his/her suppose or aged children, or alone. The dementia is progressive disease, so patients lose their abilities gradually in approximately ten years. Mostly there are two types of countermeasure action for the dementia; one is care and the other is prevention such as brain training or cognition plus exercise. Even though they will do many things by themselves independently in the early stage of dementia or in the state of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), they forced to quit daily activities such as cooking or outing by his/her relatives for reason of safety. This inhibition affects as the disuse syndrome, then he/she will lose own abilities faster. As the main symptoms of the dementia is memory loss, the authors focused on prompting behavior by using IoT technology. The sensors in the house are watching the environment and send data to control center in the house. The control center tells the situation by the synthesized voice such as “the stove still burning”, or “the door of freezing chamber is open”, then store the data with time stamp. The resident with memory loss may think about the meaning then make decision and finally do or not do something. The results are stored in the server, so the relatives can monitor the situation of the resident from anywhere.

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2018

7. Everyday technology use among older adults in Sweden and Japan : a comparative study

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Malinowsky, Camilla, Nygård, Louise, Tanemura, Rumi, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Nakata, Osamu, Sagara, Jiro, Rosenberg, Lena, Asaba, Eric, Kottorp, Anders Börje Mauritz, Malinowsky, Camilla, Nygård, Louise, Tanemura, Rumi, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Nakata, Osamu, Sagara, Jiro, Rosenberg, Lena, Asaba, Eric, and Kottorp, Anders Börje Mauritz

Abstract

As context may impact everyday technology (ET) use it is relevant to study this within different contexts.

Published
2018

10. Validation of the everyday technology use questionnaire in a Japanese context

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Malinowsky, Camilla, Kottorp, Anders, Tanemura, Rumi, Asaba, Eric, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Sagara, Jiro, Bontje, Peter, Rosenberg, Lena, Nygård, Louise, Malinowsky, Camilla, Kottorp, Anders, Tanemura, Rumi, Asaba, Eric, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Sagara, Jiro, Bontje, Peter, Rosenberg, Lena, and Nygård, Louise

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Background/Objective: The Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ), which evaluates the perceived relevance of and the perceived ability in everyday technology (ET) use, has demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties in Swedish studies of older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the ETUQ in a Japanese context in older Japanese adults. Methods: A sample of older Japanese adults (n = 164) including persons with (n = 32) and without (n = 132) cognitive impairment was interviewed with the ETUQ, including original items (ETs) and added Japanese context-specific items. Data were analyzed using a Rasch measurement model. Results: The analysis demonstrated acceptable functioning of the rating scale, internal scale validity, person response validity, and person-separation reliability of the Japanese ETUQ according to the Rasch model. However, evidence supporting unidimensionality in the Japanese ETUQ was not consistent in this sample. The added Japanese items did not significantly change the estimated individual person measures of perceived ability to use ET. Conclusion: The Japanese ETUQ seems to be a sensitive tool to evaluate perceived ability in ET use among elderly people in Japan with and without cognitive impairment. Therefore, it could be used in research and clinical practice.

Published
2016

12. Validation of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire in a Japanese context

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Malinowsky, Camillo, Kottorp, Anders, Tanemura, Rumi, Asaba, Eric, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Sagara, Jiro, Bontje, Peter, Rosenberg, Lena, Nygård, Louise, Malinowsky, Camillo, Kottorp, Anders, Tanemura, Rumi, Asaba, Eric, Nagao, Toru, Noda, Kazue, Sagara, Jiro, Bontje, Peter, Rosenberg, Lena, and Nygård, Louise

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Background/Objective The Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ), which evaluates the perceived relevance of and the perceived ability in everyday technology (ET) use, has demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties in Swedish studies of older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the ETUQ in a Japanese context in older Japanese adults. Methods A sample of older Japanese adults (n = 164) including persons with (n = 32) and without (n = 132) cognitive impairment was interviewed with the ETUQ, including original items (ETs) and added Japanese context-specific items. Data were analyzed using a Rasch measurement model. Results The analysis demonstrated acceptable functioning of the rating scale, internal scale validity, person response validity, and person-separation reliability of the Japanese ETUQ according to the Rasch model. However, evidence supporting unidimensionality in the Japanese ETUQ was not consistent in this sample. The added Japanese items did not significantly change the estimated individual person measures of perceived ability to use ET. Conclusion The Japanese ETUQ seems to be a sensitive tool to evaluate perceived ability in ET use among elderly people in Japan with and without cognitive impairment. Therefore, it could be used in research and clinical practice.

Published
2015
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16. Everyday technology use among older adults in Sweden and Japan: A comparative study.

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Malinowsky C, Nygård L, Tanemura R, Nagao T, Noda K, Nakata O, Sagara J, Rosenberg L, Asaba E, and Kottorp A

Subjects
Activities of Daily Living psychology, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Japan, Male, Middle Aged, Perception, Sweden, Surveys and Questionnaires, Technology statistics & numerical data
Abstract

Background: As context may impact everyday technology (ET) use it is relevant to study this within different contexts., Aims: To examine the usefulness of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ) in different contexts by investigating and comparing (1) the level of challenge of ETs in the ETUQ and (2) the relevance of and perceived ability to use ET in samples of Swedish and Japanese older adults., Materials and Methods: The Swedish and the Japanese samples (n = 86/86) were interviewed using the ETUQ about relevance of and perceived ability to use ET. Data were analyzed using Rasch analysis, chi square and a general linear model. Moreover, Differential Item Functioning (DIF) was investigated., Results: The hierarchy of ETs' level of challenge was generally stable in the two contexts. On group-level, the relevance was somewhat higher and the perceived ability to use ET significantly higher in the Swedish sample than in the Japanese., Conclusions and Significance: The similarities and differences between the technological landscapes of Sweden and Japan could be detected by ETUQ, demonstrating its usefulness in both countries. The potential causes to the differences in relevance of and perceived ability to use ET between older adults in Sweden and Japan need further exploration.

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2018
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