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Virtual Reality and the Cognitive Screening of Older Adults: A Review

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, ISSN: 2367-3389, Vol: 692 LNNS, Page: 419-430
2023
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Conference Paper Description

This paper presents a literature review aiming to analyse the state of the art of virtual reality applications to detect age related cognitive impairments of community-dwelling older adults by identifying (i) the paradigms for interaction being used, (ii) the cognitive domains being assessed, and (iii) how the proposed applications were evaluated. A systematic electronic search was performed using Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed databases and 23 studies were included in the review. The paradigm most used for interaction was simulation of daily tasks, while memory, executive functions, and attention were the cognitive domains most referred. For the evaluation of the proposed applications, five articles reported on diagnostic accuracy studies and their results state that applications supported on virtual reality can discriminate between normal cognition and nonnormal cognition. However, these diagnostic accuracy studies not only constitute a small percentage of the included studies, but also, in general, were conducted with a small number of participants.

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