Social Engagement is Associated With Location-based Digital Markers on a Dementia Care Unit

Social engagement is an important contributor to quality of life and overall health of people with dementia. There is an opportunity to develop an objective measure of social engagement by capturing factors, such as the number and duration of social contacts, time in social settings, and social network metrics. The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal relationship between clinical assessment of social engagement and digital markers of social behavior and networks derived from a clinical real-time location system (RTLS).