Mobile Health Applications and Android Toolkit for Alzheimer Patients, Caregivers and Doctors

Author: Gaurav Gupta, Ankit Gupta, Parimita Barura and Varun Jaiswal

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Abstract

Alzheimer, a common form of dementia causes deterioration of cognitive abilities of an individual which results in difficulty in carrying out their routine activities. Research suggests that there is no cure for this deadly disease. However, the progression of the disease can be slowed down by improving the patient’s quality of life, providing a solution for enhancing the cognitive abilities of the patient. One of the possible solution is to motivate the use of Smartphone by the patient. Smartphones play a crucial role for the family members of the Alzheimer patients as it helps the patients in carrying out their routine activities by providing time to time notifications about them. Furthermore, the smartphone also helps in assisting the caregiver to take proper care of the patient, such as retrieving the GPS locations of the patient, using Geotagging. Photographs can be used as a source of the medium in helping patients remember their family members. They are susceptible to music; t

Keywords

Alzheimer, Android Mobile Applications, GPS, Computer Assisted Technology

Conclusion

Smartphones or Touch iPods is one of the propitious assistive technology benefitting both classes of individuals viz. the caregivers as well as the Alzheimer patients. Research suggests that playing the favorite music tunes helps in stimulating the brain of the patient while the photos help the caregivers and family for handling the situation of sudden memory loss by the patient. Hence there is a need to develop mobile applications which can benefit both or any of the two. Mobile Applications focusing on treatment or diagnosis of disorders needs to have certain set features which can help either help the patient or the caregivers. These features were collected on the basis of discussion by medical experts and the mobile applications used for this study.Only 5 applications were found suitable based on the proposed set of features. Although the frequency of features in these applications ranges from 4 to 9, few features were lacking in every application. Those features are doctors dairy,

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Gupta, Gaurav, Gupta, Ankit, Barura, Parimita and Jaiswal, Varun (2019). Mobile Health Applications and Android Toolkit for Alzheimer Patients, Caregivers and Doctors. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 11(1): 199-205.