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3 +People with dementia are a diverse group of people. Not only do they differ in age, sex, and ethnicity: Their varying cognitive abilities and skills make them even more diverse. This shows how important it is to design a product such as ours with inclusivity in mind. We performed a small study to identify common characteristics of people with dementia that may influence their abilities of interacting with the product.
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3 -Usability - how easy is it to use for everyone?
4 -Accessibility - can impaired users use the product as well as non-impaired users?
5 +A first step into identifying these characteristics was made through looking at the risk factors of developing dementia. According to [[source>>https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.12068#:~:text=Age%20is%20the%20greatest%20of,or%20older%20have%20Alzheimer's%20dementia.]], age, genetics, and family history are the three greatest risk factors of developing late-onset Alzheimer's disease. Age appears to be the largest factor: 3% of people age 65-74 have Alzheimer's dementia, while 32% of people age 85 and up have this disease.
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6 -Involve different users
7 -We invited a hearing loss person and sighting loss people
7 +With age, there is also a decrease in sensory skills. Vision and hearing are two of the most common declines. [[WHO>>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/blindness-and-visual-impairment]] expects to see an increase in people acquiring vision inpairments as they age. For people over 60 years old, WHO reports that [[over 25% of people>>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-and-hearing-loss]] are affected by disabling hearing loss.
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10 +https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/research/our-research/research-projects/understanding-impact-visual-impairment-life-dementia#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20many%20people,friendly%20faces%20or%20street%20signs.
11 +https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/sight-hearing-loss
12 +https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK374270/
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13 13  https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/hearing-loss-and-the-dementia-connection#:~:text=If%20you%20have%20hearing%20loss,top%20risk%20factors%20for%20dementia.&text=Hearing%20loss%20can%20make%20the,and%20fill%20in%20the%20gaps.
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15 15  https://www.scie.org.uk/dementia/living-with-dementia/sensory-loss/hearing-loss.asp
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18 -https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/research/our-research/research-projects/understanding-impact-visual-impairment-life-dementia#:~:text=This%20means%20that%20many%20people,friendly%20faces%20or%20street%20signs.
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20 -https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/sight-hearing-loss
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22 -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK374270/
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21 +Usability - how easy is it to use for everyone?
22 +Accessibility - can impaired users use the product as well as non-impaired users?
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24 +Involve different users
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24 24  Motor skills:
25 25  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016749432030162X#:~:text=The%20motor%20symptoms%20of%20dementia,a%20decline%20in%20cognitive%20function
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