Data from Time Travelling with Technology: a technology-based program for promoting relationships and engagement in aged care

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This dataset contains transcripts of conversations between elderly people and a facilitator during group reminiscence therapy sessions in a day-respite aged care facility in Sydney Australia. Each session consisted of 2-4 older adults, sometimes including family and carers, and ran for approximately 30 minutes.

Each session displayed locations of significance to the clients on a television using Google Maps and Google Street View in a program called Time Travelling with Technology (TTT). Half the sessions involved the High-Tech condition using dynamic images panning the environment and the other half the Low-Tech condition using static images.

The dataset also includes dyadic interviews between the facilitator and each individual. The interviews were carried out at initial, mid and final intervals and included discourse tasks and autobiographical discussions.