Applications and Outcomes of Internet of Things for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia: A Scoping Review

Table 1

Inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria

(1) Papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, the full text of which was available; (2) Studies that used the Internet of Things (IoT) for Alzheimer’s disease (AD)/dementia; (3) Studies with/without a control group; (4) Studies that evaluated IoT interventions and reported the outcomes

Exclusion criteria

(1) Letters to the editor and editorials; (2) Studies that only reported the technical specifications of a system; (3) Studies that explicitly reported dementia occurring for a reason other than AD; (4) Studies that focused on technological interventions other than IoT; (5) Studies that used only global positioning system (GPS) or cameras (we included a study if it used a combination of GPS or camera with other IoT infrastructure); (6) Studies that only examined user satisfaction with the system or users’ acceptance (we included studies, in which other outcomes in addition to satisfaction/acceptance, were reported)