Gerontechnology: Providing a Helping Hand When Caring for Cognitively Impaired Older Adults—Intermediate Results from a Controlled Study on the Satisfaction and Acceptance of Informal Caregivers

Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for EPs.

Factor	Age	Medical diagnosis	Living arrangement	Caregiver
Inclusion	Over 60 years old	GDS Stage 2–4; MMSE and MoCA score of 19–26	Lives in home dwelling	Have ICG
Exclusion
		GDS beyond Stage 4; dementia secondary to head trauma; bedbound; malignant illness; psychological conditions similar to dementia; misuse of alcohol or medications; frontal temporal dementia; more than 3 acute hospitalizations in the past 12 months	Planned long-term care admission in 6 months or less	Do not have someone in the role as ICG