RadioMe: an automated home-based radio, music playlist, and diary reminder system: Report on recruitment, music compilation, and listening, and preliminary testing of heart rate activated music.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the leading reasons for early admission to a care home in dementia is the escalation of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS), and music listening can help regulate these symptoms.

Aims

RadioMe was a project designed for people living at home with dementia to build a system to help them maintain the highest quality of life there for as long as possible, with three functional components: 1. Streaming radio; 2. Providing pre-recorded spoken diary reminders; 3. interrupting the radio with pre-compiled playlists when a wrist-worn heart rate (HR) monitor detects stress. This article reports on the first two stages of this three-stage project: 1. recruitment, the music compilation process, responses of participants when listening, collection of daily agitation HR and b

SUBMITTER: Street A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12592169 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature