Synergy Workshops

Technology for Self-Care and Self-Monitoring to Help Patients with Heart Failure and Dementia with Problem Solving

December 6 & 7, 2005

Pre-reading

1. Agenda
2. Article on the co-morbidities of heart failure and dementia
3. Stages of Cardiovascular Disease
4. Stages of Dementia
5. Full list of Participants

Workshop Report

• Taking Health Home

Participant Biographies

Researchers' Articles

James Allen, Ph.D.
Margaret Cappello, RN
Leway Chen, MD, MPH, FACC
Sherry Dukes, RN, COS-C
Elliot Favus, MD
George Ferguson, Ph.D
Jane Greenlaw,JD
Cecelia Horwitz,MBA
Laurie Kopin, RN, MS, A.N.P

Cecelia Horwitz

• Affective imaging: Psychological and physiological reactions to individually chosen images

Ned Kirsh

• Assistive technology for cognitive rehabilitation: State of the art
• An Assistive-Technology Intervention for Verbose Speech After Traumatic Brain Injury A Single Case Study

Margaret Morris

• Catalyzing social interaction with ubiquitous computing: a needs assessment of elders coping with cognitive decline
• Embedded Assessment: Overcoming Barriers to Early Detection with Pervasive Computing
• New Perspectives on Ubiquitous Computing
  from Ethnographic Study of Elders
  with Cognitive Decline
• Detecting and reflecting social health: Findings from inhome trials of ubicomp platforms with elders and caregivers
• Social networks as health feedback displays

Martha Pollack

• Autominder: An Intelligent Cognitive Orthotic System for People with Memory Impairment
• SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING UNITED STATES SENATE
• Intelligent Technology for an Aging Population: The Use of AI to Assist Elders with Cognitive Impairment