Life Is A Stage: Dementia Care and the Dramatic Arts

描述（由申请人提供）：发展戏剧作品的市场潜力是存在的，这些戏剧作品可以在为痴呆症患者提供护理的设施中表演，并且可以让这些居民互动。因此，这个第二阶段项目的目的是完善我们在第一阶段SBIR（生活是一个舞台：痴呆症护理和戏剧艺术）中创作的两部戏剧，这些戏剧可以在为痴呆症患者服务的住宅中表演，并为此目的创作两部新剧。游戏可以提供线性或非线性结构。线性结构更以叙事为基础，有更多固定的角色和背景。非线性结构更多地依赖于自发和即兴的方法。在第一阶段，我们发现患有早期到中度痴呆症的人在非线性游戏的表演中最投入，而那些患有更严重痴呆症的人在线性游戏中更投入。在第二阶段拨款的alpha开发阶段，原始戏剧和两个新戏剧（1个线性，1个非线性）将在三种不同类型的痴呆症护理环境中演出-成人日托中心，辅助生活设施和长期护理设施的特殊护理单位(scu) -由第一阶段使用的表演学生在两个地理区域的每种类型的两个环境中演出：大纽约市地区和大波士顿地区。在每个特定的设置中，将执行一个线性和一个非线性的游戏。在beta开发阶段，我们在alpha开发阶段的经验将导致对四个剧本的修订。此外，所有的剧本、道具、说明（包括展示表演和如何上演戏剧的DVD）都将从一个包装（我们称之为“戏剧盒”）中取出，节目和活动总监将使用它与客户和居民进行自己的互动戏剧节目。在每一种痴呆症护理环境中，所有4场比赛将在大波士顿地区进行。然后，该产品将以类似的方式在俄亥俄州大克利夫兰地区的每一种痴呆症护理环境中进行测试。第二阶段项目的目标是：1)利用我们在第一阶段的经验，为第一阶段开发的痴呆症患者修改两个互动游戏，并创造两个新的互动游戏；2)评估游戏类型（线性或非线性）对痴呆症患者及其照顾者的影响是否存在差异；3)确定痴呆患者参与标准节目与参与戏剧是否有差异影响；4)确定痴呆症患者对痴呆症的认知和能力，以及生活质量指标，是否在表演后随时间变化；5)评估戏剧在不同居住环境和居民样本中产生的效果是否存在差异；6)确定演员表演戏剧时产生的效果是否可以在活动工作人员使用“生活是一个舞台”的测试版进行监督时复制；7)利用我们在第二阶段项目中的经验来创建产品的最终市场就绪版本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Market potential exists for development of works of drama that can be performed in facilities providing care for persons with dementia, and which can involve such residents interactively. Therefore, the purpose of this Phase 2 project is to refine two plays created in our Phase 1 SBIR (Life Is A Stage": Dementia Care and the Dramatic Arts) that can be performed in residences serving persons with dementia, and to create two new plays for this purpose. Plays are designed to provide either a linear or non-linear structure. The linear structure is more narrative-based, with more fixed roles and settings. The non-linear structure relies more on spontaneous and improvisational approaches. In Phase 1, we found that persons with early to moderate dementia were most engaged during the performance of the non-linear play, and those with more advanced dementia were more engaged during the linear play. In the alpha development stage of this Phase 2 grant, the original plays and two new plays (1 linear, 1 non-linear) will be performed in three different types of dementia care settings - Adult Day Care Centers, Assisted Living Facilities, and Special Care Units (SCUs) of long-term care facilities - by acting students used in Phase 1 in two of each type of setting in two geographic areas: the Greater New York City area and in the Greater Boston area. In each specific setting, a linear and a non-linear play will be performed. In the beta development stage, our experiences in the alpha development stage will result in revisions of the four plays. In addition, all scripts, props, instructions (including a DVD showing performances and how to stage the plays) will come out of a package (we call it the "Drama Box") that Program and Activity Directors would use to put on their own interactive drama programs with clients and residents. All 4 plays in one of each type of dementia care setting will be performed in the Greater Boston area. This product will then be tested in a similar way in one of each type of dementia care setting in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area. The objectives of the Phase 2 project are: 1) To create use our experience from Phase 1 to revise two interactive plays for persons with dementia developed in Phase 1 and to create 2 new interactive plays; 2) To assess whether the type of play - linear or non-linear - differentially affects persons with dementia and their caregivers; 3) To determine if engagement is differentially affected by standard programming versus taking part in a play in residents with dementia; 4) To determine if perceptions of dementia and capabilities of persons with dementia, along with quality of life measures, change across time after performances; 5) To assess whether there are differences in the effects produced by the plays across different residential settings and resident samples; 6) To determine if effects produced when plays are performed by actors can be replicated when performances are supervised by activity staff using the beta version of Life Is A Stage"; and 7) To use our experience in the Phase 2 project to create a final, market ready version of the product.