AD Mini: Memory Improvement Tool for Alzheimer's Patients

Abstract

According to National Center for Health Statistics, Alzheimer's disease is one of the major causes of deaths among elderly people. The current medicine does not provide any cure to this disease. Hence, managing the progression of disease is more important for the wellbeing of the patient. Approximately there are 44 million people are suffering with Alzheimer's or a relevant Dementia in the world. Which has triggered many institutions and associations forming to provide treatments. However, in Sri Lanka there is less attention to the disease because of the cultural reasons and the cost associated with the disease management process. With the limited amount of resources available most of the activities are paper base activities and care giver always should give his or her attention to the patient. All Sri Lankan Alzheimer's patients will not be able to get opportunity to go for that Alzheimer's foundation or else all patients might not attend to the clinics on date. At clinics in Sri Lanka, doctors are providing paper base activities for patient to answer. Then doctor gives marks for each activity and compare with the patient's earlier results. Furthermore, in Sri Lanka there is no computer based application tool for patients to use by themselves to keep them in touch with relevant information and develop their memory/Skills. To solve this problematic situation the research group has decided to develop an online memory improvement tool especially for Alzheimer's patients in Sri Lanka. For this researchers are observing Lanka Alzheimer's Foundation Secretariat and Service Center to gather issues related to there current paper base activity process issues and we are getting advices from Consultant Psychiatrists in Sri Lanka. Under supervision of the Psychiatrists the research team is developing an online application with recommended activities for specific areas in Alzheimer's. At the end of each game, the score save to the database and the system will generate the report.