With the aging population and the increasing number of major neurocognitive disorders in nursing homes, non-pharmacological interventions will play an important role in the future of care. The train therapy is an emerging intervention for coping with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia that relies on a railway travel simulator. Seniors, accompanied by healthcare professionals, can experience a train journey in a physical space disguised as a train wagon and displaying prerecorded videos from a train in a television disguised as a train window. This paper presents a novel and accessible railway travel simulator integrating an interactive ticket counter and we discuss the challenges and perspectives for the adoption of the train therapy.
Titre
Development of the Train Therapy in a Nursing Home in Switzerland
Date
2023-07
Publié dans
Proceedings of Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population 9th International Conference, ITAP 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, 23-28 July 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings, Part I
Pages / Numéro d'article
552-563
Editeur
Cham, Springer
Pagination
12 p.
Présenté à
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction : Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023-07-23, 2023-07-28
ISBN
978-3-031-34865-5
ISSN
0302-9743
Collection et n°
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 14042
Type de papier
published full paper
Domaine
Economie et Services
Ingénierie et Architecture
Ecole
HEG-FR
HEIA-FR
Institut
HumanTech - Technology for Human Wellbeing Institute
