Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia

Fabrice Jotterand is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. Bernice Elger Bernice Elger is internist and Head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics (University of Basel) and full professor at the Center for Legal Medicine (University of Geneva) where she leads the Unit for Health Law and Humanitarian Medicine. She studied medicine and theology in Germany, France, Switzerland and the US. Tenzin Wangmo is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her scholarship and research interests focus on issues including intergenerational relationship, aging and ethics, health of older prisoners, and empirical bioethics. Marcello Ienca is a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). His researchfocuses on the convergence of natural and artificial intelligence in the digital age with particular emphasis on the ethical and social implications of neurotechnology, machine intelligence, big data and digital health.

• 1. IntroductionFabrice Jotterand, Marcello Ienca, Tenzin Wangmo and Bernice S. Elger PART I: CURRENT LANDSCAPE2. Dementia in an Ageing WorldThomas Fritze, Anne Fink and Gabriele Doblhammer3. Dementia and Neurocognitive DisabilityChristophe J. Büla4. Can Robots, Apps and Other Technologies Meet the Future Global Demands of Dementia?Arlene Astell5. Augmented Reality-Assisted Dementia CareMengyu Y. Zhao, Soh K. Ong, and Andrew Y.C. Nee PART II: PSYCHO-SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS6. Caring for Older Adults with Dementia: The Potential of Assisted Technology in Reducing Caregiving BurdenTenzin Wangmo7. The Predestined Nature of Assistive Technologies for DementiaTaro Sugihara, Tsutomu Fujinami and Osamu Moriyama8. Shaping the Development and Use of Intelligent Assistive Technologies in Dementia: Some ThoughtsElisabeth Hildt PART III: ETHICAL AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES9. Ethical Concerns About the Use of Assistive Technologies: How to Balance Beneficence, and Respect for Autonomy in the Care of Dementia Patients?Bernice S. Elger10. Issues of Informed Consent from Persons with Dementia When Employing Assistive TechnologiesPeter Novitzky, Cynthia Chen, Alan F. Smeaton, Renaat Verbruggen and Bert Gordijn11. Personal Identity, Neuroprosthetics, and Alzheimer's DiseaseFabrice Jotterand12. Developing Assistive Technologies for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Carers: The Ethics of Doing Good, Not HarmDiane Mahoney13. Privacy and Security Issues in Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia: The Case of Ambient Assisted Living, Wearables and Service RoboticsMarcello Ienca and Eduard Fosch Villaronga14. Developing Ethical Web- and Mobile-Based Technologies for Dementia: Challenges and OpportunitiesJulie Robillard and Tanya E. Feng15. Dementia and the Regulation of GerontechnologyJames Beauregard16. Epilogue: Dementia in the Digital AgeMarcello Ienca and Tenzin Wangmo

This useful and timely compendium explains the current state of affairs of IATs in relation to dementia care and provides several valuable contributions regarding the problems already being faced (or will be soon) in the interaction between humans and technology in this particular setting.