Arlene Astell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4217840 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arlene Astell |
| NOMBRES | Arlene |
| APELLIDO | Astell |
| FIRMA | ASTELL A |
| AFILIACIONES | University Health Network |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6822-9472 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
My Story, Our Rights”—Navigating the System When Living With Young Onset Dementia in Finland
This paper discusses the rights of people with young onset dementia in their everyday lives. It does this by collaborating with co-author Petri, who was diagnosed with dementia whilst of working age. Petri shares his story of navigating the system to find resources for living a good and valuable life with dementia, starting with the challenges he faced in getting a diagnosis and accessing services, through to advocating for people living with dem…
Enhancing prompt perception in dementia
The study has resulted in recommendations and guidelines for designers to design prompts for people with dementia in mixed-reality environments. The work lays the foundation for considering mixed reality technologies as assistive tools for people with dementia, fostering discussions on their accessibility and inclusive design in technology development
Experiences of influencing one's own life when living with working-age dementia
Having opportunities to make decisions and choices regarding one's life is crucial when living with dementia. This inter-disciplinary study draws on the concept of relational autonomy to explore how working-age people living dementia seek to influence their lives, and what makes it easier or more difficult for them in their everyday life. The data consist of three focus group discussions conducted with 12 retired adults who developed dementia whi…
Using Adaptive Interaction to Simplify Caregiver’s Communication with People with Dementia Who Cannot Speak
Caregivers find it difficult to interact with people with dementia who have lost the capacity for speech. Adaptive Interaction is a simplified approach that uses the nonverbal fundamentals of communication to connect with people who can no longer speak. Here we present Adaptive Interaction as a method for equipping caregivers with these nonverbal skills to increase communication with the people they care for. Six caregivers were each paired with …
Experiential Value of Technologies
This study investigated the experiences of older adults with technologies they own and determined how they value them. Thirty-seven older adults participated in a Show and Tell co-creation session at a one-day workshop. Participants described why they loved or abandoned technologies they own. Their responses were recorded and analysed using Atlas.ti 22.0.0. Seven main themes representing experiential value in older adults emerged from the analysi…
Supporting continued work under the UNCRPD – views of employees living with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia
This article reports the results of a socio-legal investigation into how continued work among people living with progressive cognitive impairments such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early onset dementia (EOD) can be supported. This study that makes use of empirical data collected in Finland, Sweden and Canada seeks to give voice to people living with MCI or EOD and set their experiential knowledge in dialogue with equality rights related …
That's for old so and so's!’
The role of identity in older adults’ decision-making about assistive technology adoption has been suggested but not fully explored. This scoping review was conducted to understand better how older adults’ self-image and their desire to maintain this influence their decision-making processes regarding assistive technology adoption. Using the five-stage scoping review framework by Arksey and O'Malley, a total of 416 search combinations were run ac…
A Protocol Paper on the Preservation of Identity
There are a growing number of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL) for whom technology holds promise in supporting their engagement in daily activities. Despite the growing presence of technologies intended to support older adults with ARVL, there remains high rates of abandonment. This phenomenon of technology abandonment may be partly explained by the concept of self-image, meaning that older adults with ARVL avoid the use of partic…
Network-based approaches for evaluating ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies
Ambient assisted living technologies could support people experiencing physical or cognitive challenges, to maintain social identities and complex activities of daily living. Although there has been substantial investment in developing ambient assisted living innovation, less effort has been devoted to understanding how to evaluate the impact of ambient assisted living on physical and mental health. Taking a theory-based evaluation approach, we s…
That's for old so and so's!’
The role of identity in older adults’ decision-making about assistive technology adoption has been suggested but not fully explored. This scoping review was conducted to understand better how older adults’ self-image and their desire to maintain this influence their decision-making processes regarding assistive technology adoption. Using the five-stage scoping review framework by Arksey and O'Malley, a total of 416 search combinations were run ac…
Supporting continued work under the UNCRPD – views of employees living with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia
This article reports the results of a socio-legal investigation into how continued work among people living with progressive cognitive impairments such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early onset dementia (EOD) can be supported. This study that makes use of empirical data collected in Finland, Sweden and Canada seeks to give voice to people living with MCI or EOD and set their experiential knowledge in dialogue with equality rights related …
Network-based approaches for evaluating ambient assisted living (AAL) technologies
Ambient assisted living technologies could support people experiencing physical or cognitive challenges, to maintain social identities and complex activities of daily living. Although there has been substantial investment in developing ambient assisted living innovation, less effort has been devoted to understanding how to evaluate the impact of ambient assisted living on physical and mental health. Taking a theory-based evaluation approach, we s…
A Protocol Paper on the Preservation of Identity
There are a growing number of older adults with age-related vision loss (ARVL) for whom technology holds promise in supporting their engagement in daily activities. Despite the growing presence of technologies intended to support older adults with ARVL, there remains high rates of abandonment. This phenomenon of technology abandonment may be partly explained by the concept of self-image, meaning that older adults with ARVL avoid the use of partic…
That's for old so and so's!’
The role of identity in older adults’ decision-making about assistive technology adoption has been suggested but not fully explored. This scoping review was conducted to understand better how older adults’ self-image and their desire to maintain this influence their decision-making processes regarding assistive technology adoption. Using the five-stage scoping review framework by Arksey and O'Malley, a total of 416 search combinations were run ac…
Using Adaptive Interaction to Simplify Caregiver’s Communication with People with Dementia Who Cannot Speak
Caregivers find it difficult to interact with people with dementia who have lost the capacity for speech. Adaptive Interaction is a simplified approach that uses the nonverbal fundamentals of communication to connect with people who can no longer speak. Here we present Adaptive Interaction as a method for equipping caregivers with these nonverbal skills to increase communication with the people they care for. Six caregivers were each paired with …
Experiential Value of Technologies
This study investigated the experiences of older adults with technologies they own and determined how they value them. Thirty-seven older adults participated in a Show and Tell co-creation session at a one-day workshop. Participants described why they loved or abandoned technologies they own. Their responses were recorded and analysed using Atlas.ti 22.0.0. Seven main themes representing experiential value in older adults emerged from the analysi…
Supporting continued work under the UNCRPD – views of employees living with mild cognitive impairment or early onset dementia
This article reports the results of a socio-legal investigation into how continued work among people living with progressive cognitive impairments such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early onset dementia (EOD) can be supported. This study that makes use of empirical data collected in Finland, Sweden and Canada seeks to give voice to people living with MCI or EOD and set their experiential knowledge in dialogue with equality rights related …
Experiences of influencing one's own life when living with working-age dementia
Having opportunities to make decisions and choices regarding one's life is crucial when living with dementia. This inter-disciplinary study draws on the concept of relational autonomy to explore how working-age people living dementia seek to influence their lives, and what makes it easier or more difficult for them in their everyday life. The data consist of three focus group discussions conducted with 12 retired adults who developed dementia whi…
Enhancing prompt perception in dementia
The study has resulted in recommendations and guidelines for designers to design prompts for people with dementia in mixed-reality environments. The work lays the foundation for considering mixed reality technologies as assistive tools for people with dementia, fostering discussions on their accessibility and inclusive design in technology development
My Story, Our Rights”—Navigating the System When Living With Young Onset Dementia in Finland
This paper discusses the rights of people with young onset dementia in their everyday lives. It does this by collaborating with co-author Petri, who was diagnosed with dementia whilst of working age. Petri shares his story of navigating the system to find resources for living a good and valuable life with dementia, starting with the challenges he faced in getting a diagnosis and accessing services, through to advocating for people living with dem…
Medicine (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Gerontology (6 obras) · Dementia (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Technology Use by Older Adults (4 obras) · Independent living (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras)