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1		-**Alice** **Cornelius**, 78, is in the early stages of dementia and lives in a small Dutch care home. She enjoys 60s pop music and short afternoon activities. Sometimes she forgets that she has already completed a task or that she still needs to do it. Although she can physically perform light exercise, she lacks initiative without reminders. Caregivers spend significant time prompting her to stay active or hydrated.
	1	+**Issue:** Loss of functionality due to memory weaknesses (short term/prospective memory loss). Their capability to remember whether they have done a task/if they need to do something may not be remembered by them.
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3		-**Problem:** Alice often fails to start planned activities due to short-term and prospective memory lapses. This leads to inactivity and increases caregiver workload. The goal is to design a robot that gently reminds and motivates her, while maintaining her sense of autonomy and social connection.
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5		-**Entry conditions:** The resident is physically able to move with light assistance, can communicate with the robot, and shows mild memory loss but remains socially responsive
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7		-**Exit criteria:** Residents begin more daily activities independently (e.g., dancing or hydration) compared to a baseline week. Caregivers spend less time issuing reminders, and residents continue to interact positively with others, showing no decrease in social engagement.
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9		-**Refusing compliance:** The patient may not comply, believing they have already done the activity, the activity is pointless, or they are not in the mood to do the activity. This requires the robot to foster a level of trust, or to somehow convince, or to back off. (For this, the robot could learn about each individual patient.)
	3	+**Taking pills:** Right now, a caregiver comes into the room,** talks to the patient** (humane factor), and **ensures that pills are taken** by delivering them themselves at certain times based on some schedule. We want a robot to handle this to alleviate the workload of the caregiver. This needs to make sure the human need of interaction is kept, while delivering the correct pills at the right time. However, the dementia patient also needs to be able to make the choice themselves.