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AD Mini: Memory Improvement Tool for Alzheimer's Patients
(IEEE, 2018-08-08) Weerakoon, D. S. D; Kahandawaarachchi, K. A. D. C. P; Thilakasiri, W. P. M; Dissanayake, J. D. S. Y; Shanthakumara, W. D. M. B
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.
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Memory Improvement Tool for Dementia Alzheimer’s Patients
(Elsevier, 2018-01-01) Weerakoon, D. S. D; Kahandawaarachchi, K. A. D. C. P; Dissanayake, J. D. S. Y; Thilakasiri, W. P. M; Shanthakumara, W. D. M. B
The Alzheimer’s disease is one of the top ten causes of death among the elderly. Studies show that there is a significant increase in deaths reported after early 1990s due to the lack of a cure in preventing the disease in modern medicine. Hence, there are numerous attempts made towards managing the progression of the disease which results in improving the wellbeing of the patient. One of the recommended methods of managing it long-term is through providing many memory related activities to the patients. With the limited amount of resources and investments, Sri Lanka is finding it difficult to manage the significant number of patients. Furthermore, not all patients get the opportunity to visit the Alzheimer’s Foundation and receive treatments. This research is a small step towards creating a computer-aided platform for Alzheimer’s patients to improve their livelihood thorough activities focusing on 4As of Alzheimer’s (long-term memory, short-term memory, language and communication skills and fine motor skills) disease under the guidance of clinical Psychiatrists (1). The application is tested with over 75 Alzheimer’s patients under the guidance of their physicians. The comprehensive record keeping for patient condition analysis, gamification-based environment for patients and assistive tool for memory management are among the benefits of this application.