Christian WredeUniversity of Twente | UT · Department of Psychology, Health and Technology (PHT)
Christian Wrede
Master of Science
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Introduction
My main research interest centers around the development and implementation of eHealth technologies that contribute to self-management and care innovation within an aging society. More specifically, my passion lies in researching innovations that facilitate extended independent living of people with dementia and support their caregivers.
Publications
Publications (19)
Background
There is a growing interest to support extended independent living of people with dementia (PwD) via unobtrusive monitoring (UM) technologies which allow caregivers to remotely monitor lifestyle, health, and safety of PwD. However, these solutions will only be viable if developers obtain a clear picture of how to create value for all rel...
Background: There is a growing interest to support extended independent living of people with dementia (PwD) via unobtrusive monitoring (UM) technologies which allow caregivers to remotely monitor lifestyle, health, and safety of PwD. However, these solutions will only be viable if developers obtain a clear picture of how to create value for all re...
Background:
The worldwide increase in community-dwelling people with dementia underscores the need for innovative eHealth technologies that aim to provide support to both patients and their informal caregivers in the home setting. However, sustainable implementation of eHealth technologies within this target group can be difficult.
Objective:
Th...
BACKGROUND
The increasing number of community-dwelling people with dementia worldwide underscores the need for innovative eHealth technologies that aim to provide support to both patients and their informal caregivers in the home setting. Sustainable implementation of eHealth technologies within this target group can, however, be difficult.
OBJECT...
Background:
The COVID-19 lockdown could engender disruption to lifestyle behaviors, thus impairing mental wellbeing in the general population. This study investigated whether sociodemographic variables, changes in physical activity, and sleep quality from pre- to during lockdown were predictors of change in mental wellbeing in quarantined older ad...
Background
Due to a growing shortage in residential care, people with dementia will increasingly be encouraged to live at home for longer. Although people with dementia prefer extended independent living, this also puts more pressure on both their informal and formal care networks. To support (in)formal caregivers of people with dementia, there is...
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic forced people from all around the globe to strongly modify their daily routines, putting a significant strain on the social aspects of daily lives. While the first wave of the pandemic was a very challenging time in all countries, it is still uncertain whether various lockdown intensities and infection rates di...
BACKGROUND
Due to a growing shortage in residential care, people with dementia (PwD) will increasingly be encouraged to live at home for longer. While extended independent living is preferred by PwD, it also puts more pressure on both the informal and formal care network. To support (in)formal caregivers of PwD, there is growing interest in unobtru...
Symptoms of psychological distress and disorder have been widely reported in people under quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic; in addition to severe disruption of peoples' daily activity and sleep patterns. This study investigates the association between physical-activity levels and sleep patterns in quarantined individuals. An international Go...
Background
Public health recommendations and government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have enforced restrictions on daily-living. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on mental health and emotional wellbeing is undefined. Therefore, an international online survey (ECLB-COVI...
Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have enforced numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation, and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to mitigate spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on psychosocial healt...
Although recognised as effective measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, social
distancing and self-isolation have been suggested to generate a burden throughout the population. To provide
scientific data to help identify risk factors for the psychosocial strain during the COVID-19 outbreak, an international
cross-disciplinary online...
COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in numerous restrictions on daily living including social
distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the
spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on health behaviours and lifestyles at home
is undefined. Therefore, an international online survey was launche...
Background:
Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on health behaviours and lifest...
Background
Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have enforced numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to mitigate spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on psychosocial health is undefined....
Background:
Although recognised as effective measures to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, social distancing and self-isolation, have been suggested to generate burden throughout the population. To provide scientific data to help identify risk-factors for the psychosocial strain during the COVID-19 outbreak, an international cross-discipli...
Background:
Public health recommendations and government measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have enforced restrictions on daily living, which may include social distancing, remote work/school, and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on mental health and emoti...
Background
Public health recommendations and governmental measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have enforced numerous restrictions on daily living including social distancing, isolation and home confinement. While these measures are imperative to abate the spreading of COVID-19, the impact of these restrictions on health behaviours and lifestyle a...
Projects
Projects (3)
In the light of the challenge of an aging society, older adults with dementia will increasingly be encouraged, when possible, to live at home for longer. Extended independent living may yield immense emotional benefits for both patients and caregivers, but also puts more pressure on the (in)formal care network to meet daily health-, social- or safety-related needs.
Assistive technology such as smart home systems can, especially in case of care at a distance, be used to reduce this pressure. However, these technologies often pose challenges in terms of obtrusiveness, stigmatization or privacy invasion. In an attempt to resolve these weaknesses, this project aims to gain a better understanding of how innovative and unobtrusive monitoring technology can be used to provide meaningful support in home-based dementia care. The project applies a participatory, user-centered approach in which we will develop a framework for unobtrusive monitoring that optimizes aging in place of people with dementia and reduces the burden of care.
The Health-i-Care project (https://www.health-i-care.eu/), as part of the European INTERREG VA programme, focuses on the development of eHealth technologies aimed at preventing surgical site infections and antibiotic resistance. More specifically, we focus on the development of a Virtual Reality training environment and a feedback platform for operating theatre staff to support compliance with best practices for the prevention of surgical site infections. The project is conducted in collaboration with Bielefeld University, creative industry partners Coolminds and eLABBS and different hospitals in the Dutch-German border region.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. WHO and public health authorities around the world are acting to contain the COVID-19 outbreak through home confinement. However, this time of crisis is generating stress throughout the population.
The present survey aims to assess, in many countries, the effects of home confinement on multiple lifestyle behaviours during the COVID-19 outbreak. Identifying the exact changes in lifestyle behaviours during the confinement period (compared to before confinement) may help to provide efficient and effective suggestions/solutions (e.g., ICT-based solutions) to mitigate the possible unwanted psychosocial effects of home confinement.
