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Talks：
Wearable devices: underrepresentation and untapped potential in the super-aged society
穿如何透過穿戴式輔助科技超高齡社會中尚未被滿足的照護需求？
Name：
谷大為（Ta-Wei Guu）
Position：
1. Assistant professor
2. Consultant psychiatrist and sleep medicine specialist
3. Research affiliate
Affiliation：
1. China Medical University (CMU), Taiwan.
2. CMU Beigang Hospital, Taiwan.
3. Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, IoPPN, King's College London, UK.
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Research Interests：
Depression, dementia, sleep, wearable technology, ageing
Selected Publications：
1. Guu, T.-W., Li, W.-J., Lee, S.-H., Hsu, C.-S., Chou, C.-N., Lack, L., & Ma, W.-F. (2026). 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. PLoS One, 21(5), e0342136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0342136
2. Albertyn, C. P., Guu, T. W., Chu, P., Creese, B., Young, A., Velayudhan, L. et al. (2025). Sativex (nabiximols) for the treatment of Agitation & Aggression in Alzheimer's dementia in UK nursing homes: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial. Age Ageing, 54(6):afaf149. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf149
3. Guu, T.-W., Brem, A.-K., Albertyn, C. P., Kandangwa, P., Aarsland, D., & ffytche, D. (2024). Wrist-worn actigraphy in agitated late-stage dementia patients: A feasibility study on digital inclusion. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(5), 3211-3218. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13772
4. Guu, T.-W., Muurling, M., Khan, Z., Kalafatis, C., Aarsland, D., ffytche, D., & Brem, A.-K. (2023). Wearable devices: underrepresentation in the ageing society. The Lancet Digital Health, 5(6), e336-e337. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00069-9
5. Guu, T. W., Aarsland, D., & Ffytche, D. (2022). Light, sleep-wake rhythm, and behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in care home patients: Revisiting the sundowning syndrome. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 37(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.5712
Abstract：
Taiwan has become a super-aged society by the end of 2025, bringing with it geriatric depression, dementia, and accompanying behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), which will impose a heavier burden on healthcare and caregiving systems. Currently, geriatric depression and BPSD primarily rely on pharmacological treatments. If wearable devices can be worn regularly by elderly patients, they can help objectively track data such as sleep, physical activity, and light exposure, thereby facilitating the assessment and research in old age psychiatry.
On the therapeutic side, if older adults can accept specific wearable technology—such as wearable near-infrared light therapy devices or wearable circadian rhythm regulation devices—it may reduce their exposure to medications that carry risks of falls, daytime drowsiness, and even cardiovascular diseases. Dr Guu will discuss the potential of wearable technology on the assessment side to assist in recording and analysing the behaviors of older adults, as well as its application on the therapeutic side to further improve these symptoms and even alleviate caregiver stress.
2026年會：