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      Designing Digital Mindfulness-based Interventions for Older Informal Carers

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      Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)

      Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

      Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

      Keywords: Older Adults, Informal Carers, Technology Design, Stress Management, Mindfulness-based Interventions

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          Stress is prevalent among older informal carers and has been shown to lead to negative developments in physical and psychological health, as well as overall wellbeing. One area of wellbeing that can be impacted is sleep, with high stress levels leading to poor sleep and poor sleep causing stress. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have grown in popularity in recent years and have been shown to reduce stress and increase quality of life among older informal carers. MBIs delivered digitally have the potential to be used by and be of benefit to a wide group of people. Based on the apparent gaps in the literature concerning the area of mobile device/computer-mediated MBIs for older informal carers, further research is needed in this area. An opportunity also lies in the use of wearable activity trackers to monitor any potential improvements in sleep, due to reduced stress. This paper focuses on the design of a digital application delivering MBIs, to support older informal carers to manage stress and sleep. We describe a qualitative study with older informal carers and the resulting digital application while outlining how this system will be trialled with 15 older informal carers over a 12-week period with a view to reducing stress and improving overall wellbeing.

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                Michael Wilson
                Julie Doyle
                Gerry McTaggart
                Conference
                Publication date: July 2018
                Publication date (Print): July 2018
                Pages: 1-12
                Affiliations
                [1 ] NetwellCASALA

                Dundalk Institute of Technology

                Dundalk, Ireland
                [2 ] School of Health and Science

                Dundalk Institute of Technology

                Dundalk, Ireland
                Article
                DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.52
                Copyright statement: © Wilson et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of British HCI 2018. Belfast, UK.
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                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

                Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
                Conference acronym: HCI
                Conference number: 32
                Conference location: Belfast, UK
                Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018
                Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
                Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference
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                Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development
                Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/
                Categories
                Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing

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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Applied computer science, Computer science, Security & Cryptology, Graphics & Multimedia design, General computer science, Human-computer-interaction

                Keywords: Stress Management, Older Adults, Informal Carers, Technology Design, Mindfulness-based Interventions

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