
David P. NealAmsterdam University Medical Center | VUmc · Department of Psychiatry
David P. Neal
Bachelor of Medicine
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Objectives:
Despite growing interest, the cost-effectiveness of eHealth interventions for supporting quality of life of people with dementia and their caregivers remains unclear. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the FindMyApps intervention, compared to digital care-as-usual. FindMyApps aims to help people with dementia and their care...
Objective:Scalable, cost-effective interventions to support social health in dementia are required to address growing prevalence in the face of healthcare workforce shortfalls. Until now, very few high quality studies have addressed the effectiveness of assistive technologies for social health in dementia, and almost none have evaluated the cost-ef...
Objective:INDUCT (Interdisciplinary Network for Dementia Using Current Technology), and DISTINCT (Dementia Inter-sectorial strategy for training and innovation network for current technology) are two Marie Sklodowska-Curie funded International Training Networks that aimed to develop a multi-disciplinary, inter-sectorial educational research framewo...
Background:Most frequently felt needs in dementia concern maintaining self-management and participation in meaningful activities. E-health interventions may support these aspects of social health but few have undergone large-scale evaluations. The effectiveness of the FindMyApps intervention, an app selection tool and tablet training, designed to s...
Objective:DISTINCT is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network. Supported by the INTERDEM network and European Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, DISTINCT aimed to establish a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and intersectorial European research framework, for assistive technologies to support social health in dementia. In this...
BACKGROUND
Within the framework of a randomized controlled trial into the impact of a digital, psychosocial Photo-Activity intervention on residents with dementia in the nursing home and their (in)formal carers, a process evaluation was conducted to determine factors that affected implementation of the intervention and potentially influenced interv...
Background:
FindMyApps is a tablet-based eHealth intervention designed to help people learn to use a tablet and find easy-to-use apps. This study evaluated the effectiveness of FindMyApps for supporting social health of people living with dementia, and sense of competence of their informal caregivers.
Methods:
A single-centre, two-arm, non-blind...
Introduction
FindMyApps is a tablet-based eHealth intervention, designed to improve social health in people with mild dementia or mild cognitive impairment.
Methods
FindMyApps has been subject to a randomized controlled trial (RCT), Netherlands Trial Register NL8157. Following UK Medical Research Council guidance, a mixed methods process evaluatio...
Objective
Trust and accessibility are vital to adoption of health and wellness apps. This research scoped three elements of cognitive accessibility of health app privacy policies: availability, ease of navigation, and readability.
Methods
For this cross-sectional study, quantitative data collected in the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom...
Objectives: Involving representative users in usability testing of health information technology (HIT) is central to user-centered design. However, (vulnerable) older adults as representative users have unique requirements. Aging processes may affect physical capabilities and cognitive skills, which can hamper testing with this demographic and may...
Software apps for health and wellness are proliferating rapidly.1 Policy makers, health-care providers, and consumers can benefit from assessment and standardisation of these apps, to support decision making in a rapidly developing field. Recognising this unmet need, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published a standard in J...
The ability of people with dementia and their caregivers to successfully navigate online environments is increasingly important to their social health. However, uncertainty about privacy online is an important barrier. Theoretically, access to published privacy policies should allow users of websites or software applications to make informed decisi...
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Background
For the rising number of people living with dementia, cost-effective community-based interventions to support psychosocial care are needed. The FindMyApps intervention has been developed with and for people with dementia and their caregivers, to help them use tablets to facilitate self-management and engagement in meaningful social activ...
There is increasing interest in the use of technology to support social health in dementia. The primary objective of this systematic review was to synthesize evidence of effectiveness of digital technologies used by people with dementia to improve self-management and social participation. Records published from 1 January 2007 to 9 April 2020 were i...
Background
For the rising number of people living with dementia, cost‐effective community‐based interventions to support psychosocial care are needed. The FindMyApps program helps people with dementia and their caregivers learn to use tablet computers and find user‐friendly apps that facilitate self‐management and engagement in meaningful activitie...
Background
It has been demonstrated that people with dementia’s wellbeing can improve by using touchscreen technology. The FindMyApps program is a training and web‐based selection‐tool to help people with dementia and their caregivers find suitable apps that can improve their self‐management and engagement in meaningful activities. As part of an ex...
Purpose
FindMyApps is a web-based selection-tool and errorless learning training program to help people with mild dementia/Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and caregivers find user-friendly apps. In preparation of a definitive trial, the impact and feasibility of the FindMyApps intervention on self-management and engagement in meaningful activities,...
Background: People with dementia can improve their wellbeing by using touchscreen technology. FindMyApps is a program comprising of a web-based selection-tool and an errorless learning training to help people with dementia and their caregivers find suitable apps which can improve their self-management and engagement in meaningful activities. This p...
Background: For the rising number of people living with dementia, cost-effective community-based interventions to support psychosocial care are needed. The FindMyApps program helps people with dementia and their caregivers learn to use tablet computers and find user-friendly apps that facilitate self-management and engagement in meaningful activiti...