Managing Time With Dementia: Effects of Time Assistive Products in People With Dementia

Launched by UPPSALA UNIVERSITY · Sep 17, 2018

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Introduction

How time is managed is of great importance for daily life, including participation and well-being (Christiansen, 2005). Time management behaviors relate positively to perceived control of time, satisfaction and health, and negatively to stress (Claessens, van Eerde, Rutte, \& Roe, 2007). Prenda and Lachman (2001) demonstrated that planning predicted life satisfaction in older people, while Ouwehand et al. (2006) found that future time orientation was important for their well-being. The capacity for concrete planning has also been shown to predict well-being in older people ove...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Mild or moderate dementia (as determined by MMSE or CDR score)
• • Self-rated difficulties in daily time management or difficulties identified by caregivers.
• • The person with dementia should know of their disease and feel comfortable discussing experiences related it.
• • The persons should be interested in trying out an assistive product as support in everyday activities for a six-month period.
• • For each person with dementia, one informal caregiver involved in providing support to the person with dementia (PwD), will be included.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Severe Dementia, ≤ 9 MMSE
• • Mental health problems or psychiatric disorders not connected to dementia status,
• • High levels of physical frailty,
• • Inability to communicate verbally