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| Cognitive mobile games for memory impaired older adults | | Author(s) | Sari Merilampi, Andrew Sirkka, Mirka Leino |
| Journal title | Journal of Assistive Technologies, vol 8, no 4, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 207-223 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/jat.htm |
| Keywords | Memory disorders ; Cognitive impairment ; Octogenarians ; Nonagenarians ; Assistive technology ; Indoor games ; Computers ; Computing [leisure] ; Rehabilitation ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of mobile tablet computer games on the cognitive skills and recreation of older people with memory impairment. Mobile games that required cognitive skills were developed. The games were tested by memory-impaired older adults with an average age of 90. Gaming interventions took place for three months on a daily basis. Game outcomes were automatically recorded and user feedback was collected by interviews. The progress of the testees was also evaluated by means of Trial Making Test A. Findings showed an improvement in game scores. Other significant effects of game play were enhanced recreation and self-managed activity level. Game play did not have any effect on the traditional Trail Making Test results but the results of the Trail Making game showed improvement. The Trail Making game also showed a large variance in daily scores, which implied that performing just a single Trail Making Test might lead to misreading a person's condition. These results are an encouragement for conducting further testing on a larger test group, over a longer time and continuing with game development for cognitively impaired older adults. A similar game trial will also be arranged for a younger population with better overall health condition. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150619260 A |
| Classmark | EH: E4: BBM: BBR: M: HO: 3O: HPC: LM: 4C |
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