Nada M Savitch

This case study provides an example of industry working closely with both the public sector and the people it aims to assist. It also shows how industry can lead the way in listening to a group of people who often have no voice in wider society: people with dementia. The case study describes the ways in which people with dementia and their carers h...

Loneliness and/or isolation are key indicators of quality of life and living well. Using data from the IDEAL study we investigated the prevalence of loneliness and isolation for people with dementia and their carers. Loneliness was measured using the six-item de Jong Gierveld scale and isolation by the six-item Lubben social network measure. Prelim...

People with dementia are often described as 'hard to reach' by service providers and practitioners, as well as people in the research community, who do not know how to go about engaging them. Recently, people with dementia themselves have started speaking up through groups like DEEP (the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project) and demonstratin...

People with dementia are often excluded from taking part in research because of perceived difficulties in consent, capacity and communication. We argue that involving people with dementia in research is important, and describe how we involved people with dementia as both advisers and participants in research about the use of life story work. Resear...

Dementia disproportionately affects women but the experiences and voices of women are missing from the research and literature. This project provides a snapshot of the experiences, thoughts and opinions of women affected by dementia: women with a diagnosis of dementia, women who are caring for family or friends, and women working in one of the cari...

Background Enabling people with dementia and carers to ‘live well’ with the condition is a key United Kingdom policy objective. The aim of this project is to identify what helps people to live well or makes it difficult to live well in the context of having dementia or caring for a person with dementia, and to understand what ‘living well’ means fr...

Purpose – Atdementia.org.uk is well established as the primary information resource about assistive technology (AT) that is helpful specifically for people with dementia. This paper aims to describe the development of a new online interface for the website that aims to encourage people with dementia to talk about the problems they are experiencing...

Much of the research into HCI and the older population has concentrated on physical problems associated with older age, such as visual and motor problems. Cognitive decline is associated with older age, and in many older people cognitive impairment develops into dementia. This paper describes how people with dementia are too often an overlooked min...

This chapter describes the current thinking around designing Web sites for people with dementia. It is important that people with dementia are involved in the development of Web sites that are designed for them to use. The chapter offers advice for both researchers and practitioners who may not have thought about this user group. Symptoms of dement...

People with dementia have not traditionally been seen as a user group for website development. This paper describes the first attempts to discover some of navigation design needs when developing an information-based web- site for people with dementia. A card sorting methodology is described using existing information that is provided for people wit...

This chapter describes the current thinking around designing Web sites for people with dementia. It is important that people with dementia are involved in the development of Web sites that are designed for them to use. The chapter offers advice for both researchers and practitioners who may not have thought about this user group. Symptoms of dement...

This study, conducted collaboratively with five men who have a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD), is the first stage of a formative research project aimed at developing a new website for people with dementia. Recommendations derived from a literature review of the implications of dementia-related cognitive changes for website design...

Computers could play an important part in improving the quality of life for people with dementia: for information seeking, communication and leisure. Computers and the Internet offer a special tool that could help people to maintain and learn new skills, develop hobbies and communicate with others in new ways. However, the design of interfaces ofte...

People with dementia have problems with memory, attention, language and orientation. Designers in the physical environment have started to consider the needs of people with dementia, but research into the use of computers by people with dementia has not been widespread. The large English-speaking Alzheimer's associations around the world are all co...