NOCTURNAL - Night Optimised Care Technology for UseRs Needing Assisted Lifestyles

夜间（夜间优化护理技术，为需要辅助生活方式的用户）旨在解决痴呆症早期患者的需求，在夜间提供治疗支持和指导。有大量的科学和临床研究解决了痴呆症患者在白天的需求；例如，从技术丰富的环境中记录的行为推断日常生活活动（ADL）。尽管残疾人在黑暗的时候很脆弱，但在这段时间里，并没有明显的工作为残疾人提供全面的支持。只有很少的研究集中在简单的架构上，通过使用加速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失眠问题。值得注意的是，现时并没有特别的服务，为残疾人士在夜间提供支援，或更全面地处理他们的需要。nightnight解决了这一问题，并提供了一个辅助生活信息平台，利用当前最先进的技术，在夜间为残疾人提供支持，促进安全和福祉。这项工作的主要目标是提供新的技术能力，支持由Fold Housing Association Ltd（该公司）销售的更复杂的服务产品，从而提高英国在该市场的竞争力。除了技术进步所支撑的服务演进这一主要目标外，还将有相关的研究目标来支持服务演进。夜间活动的基本研究问题将集中在：技术如何在夜间帮助痴呆症患者和他们的护理人员？哪些设计用于白天援助的技术和护理方案可在夜间使用？应开发哪些技术和护理方案专门用于夜间应用？在这种情况下，应如何重新考虑护理服务和相关的使用者照顾者？以及我们能否开发新的评估框架，将护理人员和残疾人都纳入其中？． 夜行计划将研究在拟议系统支持下协助残疾人士的新模式（例如灯光和音乐）。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，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，盲人残疾人的音频选项）或个人偏好。我们设想的场景包括在残疾人醒来时对他们进行管理，支持他们恢复睡眠，在晚上和早上加强前瞻记忆，在残疾人去洗手间（或其他房间）和回到床上时给予指导。对于这些场景，NOCTURNAL将寻求最大限度地提高安全感，防止跌倒并鼓励健康。NOCTURNAL汇集了一个成熟的服务提供商，折叠住房协会的远程组织和学术研究人员，阿尔斯特大学，以加强和促进目前对残疾人的服务。NOCTURNAL对英国是有益的，因为它为PwD提供了夜间治疗支持和指导的概念，然后由公司在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式、经济学、可用性、服务提供、数据管理、技术框架、信任问题以及隐私方面所需的变化和机会。

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.