STAlz: Remotely supporting the diagnosis, tracking and rehabilitation of patients with Alzheimer's

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Moreira, H (Author) Other; Oliveira, R (Author) Other; Nuno Flores (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013

Pages: 580-584

2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2013

Lisbon, 9 October 2013 through 12 October 2013

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Scopus - 4 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00G-VTM

DOI: 10.1109/healthcom.2013.6720743

Abstract (EN): As the World's population gets older, diseases directly related to aging are increasingly becoming the focus of technological effort and research. Dementia, in general, and Alzheimer's disease (AD), in particular, is one of the most common afflictions among elderly people, with studies predicting an even bigger incidence in the next decades. Due to mobility constraints, patients are being inadequately followed by their medical staff, hindering an effective delay of the disease's progression through preventive therapeutics. As such, new ways of diagnosing, tracking and rehabilitating AD patients are needed. This paper presents STAlz, a mobile device based system developed to provide caregivers and medical professionals a way to be in contact and share important information, and to provide patients with a tool that could potentiate the exercise of their cognitive functions. This system was tested with Alzheimer's disease caregivers and the initial results proved promising. © 2013 IEEE.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific