Assessing Ambient Assisted Living Support for Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results supported by a questionnaire applied to several healthcare stakeholders

According to the World Health Organization, about 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia. Ten million new cases added every year [1]. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) affects more than 15% of the population aged 65. MCI patients are mostly home-based. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems provide tools for automatic registration of vital signs and other medically and socially important information. An online anonymous questionnaire for healthcare professionals was created to prove or disprove the number of interconnected hypotheses about the necessity and feasibility of the AAL system for MCI patients. The questionnaire was completed by sixty respondents. Descriptive statistics show support for the implementation of general AAL and variants for MCI patients. Comparative analysis of ordinal data groups is done with help of the non-parametric Mann–Whitney–Wilcoxon test and the Kruskal-Wallis test. Table questions results are analyzed with chi-square for frequency tables. Comparative analysis of groups demonstrated relative uniformity of responses.