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Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 9th International Conference, MindCare 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23–24, 2019, Proceedings

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Experiencing Dementia from Inside: The Expediency of Immersive Presence

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_5,
        author={Francesca Morganti},
        title={Experiencing Dementia from Inside: The Expediency of Immersive Presence},
        proceedings={Pervasive Computing Paradigms for Mental Health. 9th International Conference, MindCare 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 23--24, 2019, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={MINDCARE},
        year={2019},
        month={7},
        keywords={Cognitive frailty Alzheimer Dementia Friendly ViveDe 360° video Virtual reality},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_5}
    }
    
  • Francesca Morganti
    Year: 2019
    Experiencing Dementia from Inside: The Expediency of Immersive Presence
    MINDCARE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_5
Francesca Morganti1,*
  • 1: University of Bergamo
*Contact email: francesca.morganti@unibg.it

Abstract

The lengthening of life expectancy has shown a positive trend of neurodegenerative diseases and, among these, dementia seems to have a large incidence in the world population. Unfortunately, in their individual, social and institutional contexts people with dementia are very often stripped of their “being a person” and, finding themselves in a condition of particular frailty, they become the object of exclusion. More recently the idea of being aware about pathological cognitive decline linked to neurodegenerative diseases is growing worldwide through the Dementia Friendly Community movement. It is asking to general population to perform inclusive behaviors towards people living with different forms of dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease) by maintaining their personal and professional role within the urban community. Despite the large amount of Dementia Friendly initiatives, if a member of the community doesn’t have the opportunity to personally observe this living condition among her/his close relationships she/he probably tend to consider the dementia population as largely needful and highly usefulness, without exactly understand how they can contribute in this inclusive process. In order to support the urban community members in their broadly availability to adequately play their social role towards people living with dementia, the present research introduces ViveDe: examples of immersive experiences possible trough virtual reality. With the aim of pushing the general population in understanding how living with dementia could be like, different daily situation where proposed and social perspective change was analyzed.

Keywords
Cognitive frailty Alzheimer Dementia Friendly ViveDe 360° video Virtual reality
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2019-07-11
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25872-6_5
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