Mobile Application for Dementia and Alzheimer Patients

Abstract

Dementia is an incessant neurodegenerative disease that to a degree influences millions of people around the world. Alzheimer’s disease is a major reason for dementia, a term for the decline of memory and cognition, severe enough to impact everyday human performance. According to various studies, Alzheimer’s disease has been found to account for 60 to 80% of dementia cases. Alzheimer’s disease consists of 7 stages with different indicators. As the stage progresses, the patient’s condition worsens over time and the dependency on the caregivers also increase. In this work, an Android application to provide a virtual guide for people with dementia and make tasks easier for caregivers is developed. This application will provide several features such as Family and Relationship information, Location Tracking using the Android location provider API, medication and exercise reminders with the alarm manager class, memory quizzes, and music therapy using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The novelty of this application is the connection with volunteers in the vicinity using a spatial index for emergency assistance in situations where the nurse cannot physically attend to the patients. The aim of the application is to provide an integrated solution for counseling in all aspects of life in every stage of dementia.