Introducing and Familiarising Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers to Virtual Reality

ABSTRACT: Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly being applied in dementia care across a range of applications and domains including health and wellbeing. Despite the commercial availability of VR, informants of design are not always aware of its functionality and capabilities, to meaningfully contribute to VR design. In designing VR applications for people living with dementia, it is recommended that older adults living with dementia and their support persons be involved in the design process using participatory approaches, thereby giving them a voice on the design of technology from the outset. A VR technology probe is a useful means of familiarising older adults living with dementia and their informal caregivers with the knowledge and understanding of interactive VR to employ technology that suppor

SUBMITTER: Flynn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9736737 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature