Development of a Caregiver Application and AI-Enabled Intelligent Assistant to Support Families and Formal Care Providers in Caring for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

项目摘要 家庭照顾者在照顾阿尔茨海默病患者方面面临着严峻的挑战。目前还 没有广泛可用的机制为非正式AD护理人员提供实时、上下文敏感的支持， 满足每位AD患者的特殊护理需求。为了解决这一关键差距，我们开发了CareVirtue， 面向家庭护理人员的创新网络/移动的应用程序，也可帮助正规护理提供者帮助这些 家庭在第一阶段项目中，我们将确认CareVirtue网络/移动的应用程序作为以下方法： 护理人员记录与AD患者的日常护理互动，并建立所生成数据的实用性， 为智能护理助理应用开发预测模型。 展望未来，我们的长期目标是将AI智能护理助理应用程序商业化 这将按需提供有关AD患者的高度相关信息给护理团队， 护理人员的压力和负担，减少医疗保健支出，并提高护理质量的AD患者 和他们的照顾者。

PROJECT ABSTRACT Family caregivers face daunting challenges in caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is no widely available mechanism to provide real-time, context sensitive support to informal AD caregivers that can address the specific care needs of each AD patient. To address this critical gap, we developed CareVirtue, an innovative web/mobile application for family caregivers that also assists formal care providers helping these families. During this Phase I project we will validate the CareVirtue web/mobile application as a method for caregivers to document daily care interactions with AD patients, and establish the utility of the generated data to develop predictive models for an intelligent caregiver assistant application. Looking ahead, our long term goal is to commercialize an AI-enabled intelligent caregiver assistant application that provides on demand, highly-relevant information about AD patients to care teams, which will ameliorate caregiver stress & burden, reduce health care expenditures, and improve quality of care for both AD patients and their caregivers.