Supporting reflection and creative thinking by carers of older people with dementia

Author

Karlsen, Kristine ; Zachos, Konstantinos ; Maiden, Neil ; Jones, Sara ; Turner, Ian ; Rose, Malcolm ; Pudney, Kevin

Author_Institution

Centre for Creativity in Prof. Practice, City Univ. London, London, UK

fYear

2011

Firstpage

526

Lastpage

529

Abstract

This paper reports ongoing research and development in the EU-funded MIRROR project to support and enhance reflective learning and creative problem solving during the care of older people with dementia. The research has designed and implemented apps on mobile devices that support more direct capture of care information in situ and support creative thinking about care in difficult situations from existing cases of good care practice. These devices and apps are currently being trialed in one care home to explore their feasibility.

Keywords

geriatrics; health care; human computer interaction; learning (artificial intelligence); mobile computing; problem solving; EU-funded MIRROR project; care home; creative problem solving; creative thinking; dementia; mobile devices; older people; reflection thinking; reflective learning; Dementia; Mirrors; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Natural languages; Portable media players; Reflection; case-based reasoning; creative thinking; dementia care; mobile apps; recording care information; reflective learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2011 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dublin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-767-2

Type

conf

Filename

6038862