BESI: Behavioral and Environmental Sensing and Intervention for Dementia Caregiver Empowerment-Phases 1 and 2.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Caregiver burden associated with dementia-related agitation is one of the commonest reasons a community-dwelling person with dementia (PWD) transitions to a care facility. Behavioral and Environmental Sensing and Intervention for Dementia Caregiver Empowerment (BESI) is a system of body-worn and in-home sensors developed to provide continuous, noninvasive agitation assessment and environmental context monitoring to detect early signs of agitation and its environmental triggers.

Research design and methods

This mixed methods, remote ethnographic study is explored in a 3-phase, multiyear plan. In Phase 1, we developed and refined the BESI system and completed usability studies. Validation of the system and the development of dyad-specific models of th

SUBMITTER: Bankole A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10624017 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature