LifeZig System for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease

适用于阿尔茨海默病患者的 LifeZig 系统

• 批准号: 6742136
• 负责人: BRUNO KAJIYAMA
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: PHOTOZIG, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6742136
• 关键词: Alzheimer' s disease; behavioral /social science research tag; caregivers; clinical research; family structure /dynamics; focus groups; functional ability; human subject; human therapy evaluation; imagery; medical rehabilitation related tag; memory; musics; nervous system disorder therapy; patient oriented research; quality of life; relaxation; television; therapy design /development; visual stimulus

The goals of this project are: (1) to enhance the quality of life for individuals with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and their families/caregivers with the new TOM-VC intervention (Therapeutic Old Memories-Video Channels) and the novel Lifezig system, decreasing the burn of care to families/caregivers and contributing to positive interaction between AD patients and families/caregivers; (2) to develop the easy-to-use self-contained Lifezig system, allowing family/caregivers to create/display personalized TV channels with old photographs of AD patients, music, narration and relaxing sounds; as a therapy to relax and treat AD patients. The project will develop novel assistive technology and new products to improve the well-being and functioning of people who are older and have chronic disabling illness, particularly AD, enabling environment improvement for home, community and health-care settings. With an ever-growing number of AD patients (4 Million American families struggling with the Alzheimer's Disease3), Lifezig products should have a high demand, as there are no such systems on the market. The research framework is: implementation of the Lifezig prototype based on user requirements, iterative design, 3-stage evaluation with AD patients and caregivers; and assessment of the intervention effectiveness/system usability by utilizing the Observed Emotion Rating Scale, Geriatric Depression Scale and Caregiver/Family Assessment Instrument.

该项目的目标是： （1）通过新的TOM-VC干预措施（治疗性的旧记忆 - 视频通道）和新颖的Lifezig系统，为患有阿尔茨海默氏病（AD）患者及其家庭/护理人员的人的生活质量降低，从而减少了对家庭/护理人员的燃烧，并为AD患者和家庭/护理人员/护理人员之间的积极相互作用做出了贡献； （2）开发易于使用的独立寿命系统，允许家庭/照顾者创建/展示带有广告患者的旧照片，音乐，叙事和放松的声音的个性化电视频道；作为放松和治疗AD患者的疗法。该项目将开发新颖的辅助技术和新产品，以改善年龄较大并患有慢性致残疾病的人的福祉和功能，尤其是AD，从而改善家庭，社区和医疗保健环境。随着越来越多的AD患者（400万美国家庭与阿尔茨海默氏病斗争3），Lifezig Products的需求应该很高，因为市场上没有这样的系统。研究框架是：根据用户需求，迭代设计，对AD患者和看护人的三阶段评估的Lifezig原型的实施；通过使用观察到的情绪评级量表，老年抑郁量表和护理人员/家庭评估工具来评估干预效率/系统可用性。