Facilitating the measurement and treatment of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) and understanding caregiver burden using wearable devices in Rural Taiwan—Protocol for a dyadic feasibility pilot study

• Ta-Wei Guu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ta-wei.guu@kcl.ac.uk

  Affiliations Division of Psychiatry, Departments of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Beigang Hospital, Yunlin, Taiwan, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-0781

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• Wan-Jing Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Shih-Hsiung Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Psychiatry, Departments of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Beigang Hospital, Yunlin, Taiwan

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• Chih-Shan Hsu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurology, Departments of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Beigang Hospital, Yunlin, Taiwan

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• Chia-Ni Chou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Community Longterm Care Center, China Medical University Beigang Hospital, Yunlin, Taiwan

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• Leon Lack,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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• Wei-Fen Ma

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Departments of Nursing, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8203-5909

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