NOCTURNAL - Night Optimised Care Technology for UseRs Needing Assisted Lifestyles

NOCTURNAL - 为需要辅助生活方式的用户提供夜间优化护理技术

• 批准号: TS/G002452/1
• 负责人: Juan Augusto
• 金额: $ 14.36万
• 依托单位: University of Ulster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=TS%2FG002452%2F1
• 关键词: NOCTURNAL; Night; Optimised; Care; Technology

NOCTURNAL (Night Optimised Care Technology for UseRs Needing Assisted Lifestyles) aims to address the needs of people at the early stages of dementia providing therapeutic support and guidance during the hours of darkness.There is a significant amount of scientific and clinical research that addresses the needs of People with Dementia (PwD) during daytime; for example, inferring Activities of Daily Living (ADL) from behaviour recorded in technology enriched environments. There is no notable body of work for holistic support of PwD during the hours of darkness despite the vulnerability PwD have at that time. There are only a few scarce studies, focused on simplistic architectures, addressing anxiety or night time falls through the use of accelerometers or detection of potential problems by measuring how long it takes for a person to go back to bed. Noticeably there is no specific provision of service that supports PwD during night time or addresses their needs in a more holistic way. NOCTURNAL addresses this gap and provides an assisted living information platform to promote safety and well-being using the current state of the art technology in support of PwD during the night. The primary objective of the work is to provide new technological capabilities that support more sophisticated service offerings to be marketed by Fold Housing Association Ltd (the company) and hence increase competitiveness of the UK in this market. As well as this primary objective of service evolution underpinned by technological advancement, there will be related research objectives to support that service evolution. The fundamental research questions NOCTURNAL will focus on are : How can technology assist people with dementia and their carers during night time? , Which of the technologies and caring protocols designed to be used for assistance during daylight time can be used during night time? , What technology and caring protocols should be developed specifically for its applications during the night period? , How care services and the related user-carers should be reconsidered in this situation? and Can we develop new evaluation frameworks that are inclusive of carers as well as PwD? . NOCTURNAL will research new modalities (for example lighting and music) of assisting the PwD supported by the proposed system. It will also be innovative on redesigning current methodologies that are used to recognize patterns of behaviour to offer more sophisticated interventions that can incorporate the specific technology being introduced. The technology will be configurable in order to meet the needs of people with combinations of disabilities (e.g., audio options for blind PwD) or personal preferences. The scenarios that we envisage include managing a PwD as they awake, support a person returning to sleep, reinforcement of prospective memory in evening and morning time, guidance when PwD going to the bathroom (or other rooms) and returning to bed. For these scenarios, NOCTURNAL will seek to maximise feelings of safety, prevent falls and encourage wellbeing. NOCTURNAL brings together a well established service provider, Fold Housing Association's Telecare organisation, and academic researchers, the University of Ulster, to enhance and promote current services to PwD. NOCTURNAL is beneficial to the UK because it provides a proof of the concept of nighttime therapeutic support and guidance for PwD, that is then validated within an existing service framework by the company. This will provide a base of evidence across the various disciplines and areas, informing the market of the changes and opportunities required in health and well being models, economics, usability, service provision, data management, technology framework, trust issues as well as privacy.

夜间（为需要辅助生活方式的老年痴呆症患者提供夜间优化护理技术）旨在满足痴呆症早期患者的需求，在黑暗的时间里提供治疗支持和指导，有大量的科学和临床研究满足痴呆症患者白天的需求;例如，从在技术丰富的环境中记录的行为推断日常生活活动（ADL）。尽管PwD在黑暗的时刻很脆弱，但没有明显的工作机构在黑暗的时刻为PwD提供全面支持。只有少数研究集中在简单的架构上，通过使用加速度计或通过测量一个人回到床上需要多长时间来检测潜在的问题来解决焦虑或夜间福尔斯跌倒。值得注意的是，没有具体的服务提供，以支持残疾人在夜间或以更全面的方式解决他们的需求。Nocturnal解决了这一差距，并提供了一个辅助生活信息平台，以促进安全和福祉，使用目前最先进的技术，以支持PwD在夜间。这项工作的主要目标是提供新的技术能力，支持Fold Housing Association Ltd（公司）销售更复杂的服务产品，从而提高英国在该市场的竞争力。除了以技术进步为基础的服务演进的主要目标外，还将有相关的研究目标来支持服务演进。NOCTURNAL将关注的基本研究问题是：技术如何在夜间帮助痴呆症患者及其护理人员？，哪些技术和护理协议设计用于白天的援助可以在夜间使用？，什么技术和护理协议应该专门为它的应用程序在夜间开发？在这种情况下，应如何重新考虑护理服务和相关的用户-护理者？我们能开发新的评估框架，包括照顾者以及残疾人？. Nocturnal将研究新的模式（例如灯光和音乐），以协助拟议系统支持的PwD。它还将创新地重新设计目前用于识别行为模式的方法，以提供更复杂的干预措施，其中可以纳入正在引入的具体技术。该技术将是可配置的，以满足残疾人的需求（例如，盲人PwD的音频选项）或个人偏好。我们设想的场景包括在PwD醒来时管理他们，支持一个人返回睡眠，在晚上和早上加强前瞻性记忆，指导PwD去浴室（或其他房间）和返回床上。对于这些情况，NOCTURNAL将寻求最大限度地提高安全感，防止福尔斯和鼓励健康。NOCTURNAL汇集了一个完善的服务提供商，折叠住房协会的社区组织，和学术研究人员，阿尔斯特大学，以加强和促进目前的服务，以普华永道。NOCTURNAL对英国有利，因为它为PwD提供了夜间治疗支持和指导的概念证明，然后在公司现有的服务框架内进行验证。这将为各个学科和领域提供证据基础，向市场通报健康和福祉模型、经济学、可用性、服务提供、数据管理、技术框架、信任问题以及隐私所需的变化和机会。

项目成果

Participatory research to design a novel telehealth system to support the night-time needs of people with dementia: NOCTURNAL.

• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph10126764
• 发表时间: 2013-12-04
• 期刊: International journal of environmental research and public health
• 作者: Martin S;Augusto JC;McCullagh P;Carswell W;Zheng H;Wang H;Wallace J;Mulvenna M
• 通讯作者: Mulvenna M

A review of the role of assistive technology for people with dementia in the hours of darkness.

• DOI: 10.3233/thc-2009-0553
• 发表时间: 2009-01-01
• 期刊: Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
• 作者: Carswell, W;McCullagh, P J;Jeffers, W P
• 通讯作者: Jeffers, W P

Night optimised care technology for users needing assisted lifestyles

• DOI: 10.1080/0144929x.2013.816773
• 发表时间: 2014-12-02
• 期刊: BEHAVIOUR & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Augusto, J.;Mulvenna, M.;Wallace, J.
• 通讯作者: Wallace, J.

Visualization of Data for Ambient Assisted Living Services

• DOI: 10.1109/mcom.2011.5681023
• 发表时间: 2011-01-01
• 期刊: IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE
• 影响因子: 11.2
• 作者: Mulvenna, Maurice;Carswell, William;Martin, Suzanne
• 通讯作者: Martin, Suzanne