Effect of a Smart Clothes-Assisted Care System for Persons Living With Dementia on Family Caregivers: Longitudinal Nonblinded Quasi-Experimental Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Caregiving preparedness (perceived confidence in caregiving abilities) and caregiving balance (perceived confidence in finding equilibrium among overlapping demands of caregiving and personal needs) can reduce caregiver burden and depression and improve health-related quality of life. Smart clothes technology for monitoring persons living with dementia may help reduce caregiver burden and improve quality of care, but empirical evidence remains limited.

Objective

This study aims to examine the preliminary effects of a smart clothes-assisted care system that monitors the daily activity of persons living with dementia on outcomes for the family caregivers.

Methods

This nonrandomized, quasi-experimental study recruited dyads of family caregivers and persons liv

SUBMITTER: Sung YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670050 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature