Technologies to Support Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia: A Position Paper on Issues Regarding Development, Usability, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness, Deployment, and Ethics

Franka Meiland   ¹ , PhD ;   Anthea Innes   ² , PhD ;   Gail Mountain   ³ , PhD ;   Louise Robinson   ⁴ , PhD ;   Henriëtte van der Roest   ⁵ , PhD ;   J Antonio García-Casal   ⁶ , DClinPsy ;   Dianne Gove   ⁷ , PhD ;   Jochen René Thyrian   ⁸ , PhD ;   Shirley Evans   ⁹ , PhD ;   Rose-Marie Dröes   ¹ , PhD ;   Fiona Kelly   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Alexander Kurz   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Dympna Casey   ¹² , PhD ;   Dorota Szcześniak   ¹³ , PhD ;   Tom Dening   ¹⁴ , MD, FRCPsych ;   Michael P Craven   ^{15, 16} , PhD ;   Marijke Span   ¹⁷ , PhD ;   Heike Felzmann   ¹⁸ , PhD ;   Magda Tsolaki   ¹⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Manuel Franco-Martin   ²⁰ , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, VU University medical centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

² Universities of Salford and Stirling UK, Manchester, Stirling, United Kingdom

³ School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

⁴ Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom

⁵ Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, VU university medical centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁶ Iberian Research Psychosciences Institute, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Centre, Intras Foundation, Zamora, Spain

⁷ Alzheimer Europe, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

⁸ German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock, Greifswald, Germany

⁹ Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom

¹⁰ Centre for Person-centred Practice Research, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

¹¹ Technische Universität München, Munchen, Germany

¹² School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

¹³ Department of Psychiatry, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

¹⁴ Division of Psychiatry & Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

¹⁵ NIHR MindTech Healthcare Technology Co-operative, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham Innovation Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

¹⁶ Bioengineering Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

¹⁷ Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, Netherlands

¹⁸ National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

¹⁹ Memory and dementia outpatient clinic, 3rd Department of Neurology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

²⁰ Iberian Research Psychosciences Institute, Psychiatric Department in Zamora Hospital, Salamanca University, Zamora, Spain