Effect of a Smart Clothes–Assisted Care System for Persons Living With Dementia on Family Caregivers: Longitudinal Nonblinded Quasi-Experimental Study

Ya-Li Sung   ¹ , RN, PhD ;   Huei-Ling Huang   ² , RN, PhD ;   Min-Chi Chen   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Chung-Chih Lin   ⁵ , PhD ;   Wen-Chuin Hsu   ⁶ , MD ;   Yea-Ing L Shyu   ^{2, 6, 7, 8, 9} , RN, PhD, FAAN

¹ Department of Nursing, National Chi Nan University, Nantou, Taiwan

² Department of Gerontology and Health Care Management, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan

³ Department of Public Health and Biostatistics Consulting Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁴ Division of Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁵ Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁶ Dementia Center, Department of Neurology, Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁷ School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁸ Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

⁹ Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan