Electronic Location Reporting for Individuals With Alzheimers Disease and other D

阿尔茨海默病和其他疾病患者的电子位置报告

• 批准号: 8371054
• 负责人: Suman Saripalli
• 金额: $ 16万
• 依托单位: INTELLISPEAK, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8371054
• 关键词: Address; Alzheimer' s Disease; Autistic Disorder; Behavior Therapy; Caregivers; Child; Communities; Computer software; Dementia; Devices; Documentation; Educational Materials; Electronics; Emergency Situation; Emotional; Emotional Stress; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Exhibits; Family; Feedback; Focus Groups; Foundations; Funding; Future; Gerontology; Goals; Human Resources; Impaired cognition; Individual; Knowledge; Lead; Location; Logistics; Manuals; Measures; Methods; Metric; Minor; Modification; Motion; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Participant; Patient advocacy; Patients; Persons; Phase; Population; Positioning Attribute; Procedures; Process; Production; Recommendation; Reporting; Research Personnel; Risk Management; Safety; Sample Size; Shoes; Silver; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Staging; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; Traumatic Brain Injury; United States Department of Veterans Affairs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Wireless Technology; Work; autism spectrum disorder; commercialization; design; engineering design; evaluation/testing; innovation; patient advocacy group; programs; prototype; research and development; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed effort is aimed at the evaluation of a wireless electronic location system for reporting the location of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementia (ADOD), who tend to wander or elope. This is a very vexing and routine problem for caregivers, and sometimes results in physical danger and emotional stress to the individuals who may wander. The system consists of an innovative wearable electronic navigation unit, which reports the position of the individual continuously to the caregiver, both in indoor and outdoor locations, irrespective of GPS coverage. This unit is specially designed for addressing the complicated issue of arbitrary pedestrian motion in unstructured indoor and outdoor environments. The system can also be integrated with other community and national safety networks (such as Silver Alert), and can be valuable in quickly locating individuals in emergency situations. In previous work, we designed a preliminary device for the autism community, with input from caregivers, autism risk management professionals, and researchers. We are currently developing the device, and several prototypes are ready for evaluation in this proposed effort for Alzheimer's. In Phase I, a focus group is planned to refine the requirements for Alzheimer's-specific users. In Phase II, prototypes will be tested in a wide scale pilot test program to evaluate and establish the efficacy of the system in helping caregivers locate individuals with Alzheimer's rapidly. The goal is to accelerate the transition of these devices to the users through a focused evaluation and testing process in this SBIR project, yielding launch-ready devices and associated user manuals and educational materials. A parallel (non-SBIR) effort is underway to build relationships with, and educate patient advocacy groups and user groups about this system, as part of the commercialization strategy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Individuals with cognitive impairments (such as Alzheimer's and Autism) tend to wander or elope from their caregivers routinely. This is a very vexing problem for caregivers, and sometimes results in physical and emotional danger to the wandering individuals. We propose to evaluate an electronic location reporting system for users in the Alzheimer's community, which consists of a wearable electronic navigation unit, which reports the position of the individual continuously to the caregiver, both in indoor and outdoor locations.

描述（由申请人提供）：提议的工作旨在评估无线电子定位系统，用于报告患有阿尔茨海默病和其他痴呆症（ADOD）的个体的位置，他们倾向于流浪或私奔。对于看护者来说，这是一个非常令人烦恼和常见的问题，有时会给那些可能游荡的人带来身体危险和情绪压力。该系统由一个创新的可穿戴电子导航单元组成，无论在室内还是室外，它都能持续向护理人员报告个人的位置，而不受GPS覆盖范围的影响。这个单元是专门为解决在非结构化的室内和室外环境中任意行人运动的复杂问题而设计的。该系统还可以与其他社区和国家安全网络（如银色警报）集成，在紧急情况下快速定位个人可能很有价值。在之前的工作中，我们为自闭症社区设计了一个初步的设备，并得到了护理人员、自闭症风险管理专业人员和研究人员的意见。我们目前正在开发这种设备，有几个原型已经准备好用于评估这项针对阿尔茨海默氏症的提议。在第一阶段，计划一个焦点小组来细化老年痴呆症特定用户的需求。在