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Investigating the Efficacy of an Augmented Virtual Reality Driving Simulator on Institutionalized Dementia Patients
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba (Academic or other)
- Enrolment
- 20 planned
- Conditions
- Advance Dementia
- Interventions
- VRDS
- Ages
- adults, older adults
- Registry
- NCT06419257
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From the registry
The improvement in health and welfare in modern society has led to an increase in life expectancy. Alternatively, the longer one lives, the more likely to experience deterioration in memory, cognitive ability, and executive function skills in our brains. While some cognitive impairments can be typical results of normal aging, a decline in spatial cognition can be a sign of dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease (AD). Based on the neuroplasticity of the brain even at old ages, there are some hopes to combat dementia by repeated use of cognitive exercises in the form of a serious game designed for older adults. A popular new technology to be used to design serious games is virtual reality (VR) designs. Aside from the gaming applications, the focus of VR experiments in medicine and neuroscience is to simulate a naturalistic environment to investigate brain function and/or use it for cognitive training. A virtual reality driving simulator (VRDS) has been developed by our team that is proposed to be installed in an existing car model at Riverview Health Center (RHC) dementia units.…
Primary outcomes
- Nurses overall observations of the study participants on a scale of -1, 0 and 1 for worse, no change and improved, respectively.
History
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