VIRTUAL REALITY INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE APATHY IN RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE: PROTOCOL FOR A MULTISITE NON-RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Virtual reality intervention to improve apathy in residential aged care: protocol for a multisite non-randomised controlled trial

Introduction Apathy is a prevalent neuropsychiatric symptom for older adults residing in aged care.Left untreated, apathy has been associated with accelerated cognitive decline and increased risk of mortality.Reminiscence therapy is commonly used in aged care and has demonstrated to reduce apathy.Traditional methods of reminiscence use physical obj

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Antibiofouling Performance by Polyethersulfone Membranes Cast with Oxidized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and Arabic Gum

Despite extensive research efforts focusing on here tackling membrane biofouling, one of the biggest problems associated with membrane technology, there has been little headway in this area.This study presents novel polyethersulfone (PES) membranes synthesized via a phase inversion method at incremental loadings of functionalized oxidized multiwall

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Active imaging for monitoring and technical diagnostics

The article presents the results of currently running work tonic shower cap in the field of active imaging.The term active refers to both the image acquisition methods, so-called methods of the spatio-temporal framing and active visualization method applying augmented reality.Also results of application of the HMD and 6DoF modules as well as the ex

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