2018 Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science Conference (Minneapolis)
Pre‐Conference: Track 2: Social Media Analytics and Mobile Technology, June 13, 2018
Presented by: Rachel Zmora, MPH, Graduate Research Assistant, Center on Aging, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Rachel Zmora is a PhD student studying epidemiology in the School of Public Health. Her research interests are in cardiovascular disease and the role of co‐morbid chronic diseases in complicating diagnosis and management. For the last academic year, Rachel has worked as a graduate research assistant for Dr. Joseph Gaugler in the School of Nursing on several families and long‐term care projects. She will discuss her experience on a 5‐year demonstration project to determine the efficacy of in‐home remote activity monitoring in improving outcomes among family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia living in the community.
Objectives:
• Understand the potential role of remote activity monitoring (RAM)
• Recognize advantages of mixed methods approaches to studying RAM
• Identify barriers and challenges of RAM use
• Describe the preliminary effectiveness of RAM