ACILIA will be a low-cost kit with SaaS platform that integrates an embodied conversational agent using AI capabilities to provide educational information and emotional coping support

项目概要/摘要 目前，美国有 570 万人患有阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆症 (ADRD)， 预计到 2050 年，这一数字将达到 1380 万。三分之二的 ADRD 患者住在家里， 因此，越来越多地要求大约 1,500 万无酬照护伙伴（其中大部分是家庭成员） 执行复杂的任务会给他们带来巨大的压力。造成护理伙伴压力的主要因素是： 1) 对自己的护理任务能力缺乏信心，例如管理日常活动 生活 (ADL)、工具性日常生活活动 (IADL) 和 ADRD 行为症状的变化 在疾病过程中；2）与社会隔离，感到孤独。 Benten 建议通过创建 Avatar Companion 来解决这些问题，以改善人们的生活 阿尔茨海默病患者的非正式护理合作伙伴 (ACILIA)，一个带有 SaaS 平台的家庭套件，集成了 使用人工智能功能（即情绪分析、情绪分析和终身学习）体现对话代理 机器学习 [L3] 算法），搭配家用扬声器、智能手表和移动应用程序，以支持 CP 护理之旅。除了阶段性的指导和支持外，ACILIA 还将为护理合作伙伴提供及时的指导和支持。 关于如何管理护理任务的适当教育和培训。它还将致力于自然 与护理合作伙伴对话，检测压力情绪并提供建议和支持， 连接到虚拟社区。 ACILIA 旨在通过以下方式帮助减轻家庭护理伙伴的压力水平 通过提供陪伴和支持来提高他们提供护理的能力和能力， 这将对他们以及患有 ADRD 和居家养老的亲人的生活质量产生积极的影响。 在第一阶段项目中，我们将利用非正式顾问委员会的意见开发一个 ACILIA 原型。 护理伙伴和 ADRD 患者。我们还将在 20 个国家中进行 ACILIA 可行性试点测试 处于早期中期 ADRD 阶段的个人及其非正式护理伙伴，以评估可用性和 ACILIA 原型的验收。第一阶段的成功完成将导致第二阶段并评估其 结果。提高非正式护理伙伴的能力，减少他们的孤独感，并减少他们的 充分有力的随机对照试验（RCT）中的压力水平。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Currently, 5.7 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) in the United States, and this number is projected to reach 13.8 million by 2050. Two-thirds of individuals with ADRD live at home and as a result, approximately 15 million unpaid care partners, mostly family members, are increasingly required to perform complex tasks which causes them significant stress. The major contributors to care partners’ stress are: 1) having low confidence in their competency in their caregiving tasks, such as managing activities of daily living (ADLs), instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) and behavioral symptoms of ADRD as they change over the course of the disease and 2) being socially isolated with feelings of loneliness. Benten proposes to address these problems through creation of the Avatar Companion to Improve the Lives of Informal care partners of individuals with Alzheimer’s (ACILIA), a home kit with SaaS platform that integrates an embodied conversational agent using AI capabilities (i.e., emotion analysis, sentiment analysis and life-long machine learning [L3] algorithm), with home speakers, a smart watch, and mobile app, to support the CPs on the care journey. ACILIA will provide just-in--time guidance and support to care partners in addition to stage- appropriate education and training on how to manage caregiving tasks. It will also engage in natural conversations with the care partners detecting sentiments of stress and offering advice and support and connection to a virtual community. ACILIA aims to assist in reducing the family care partners’ stress levels by improving their competency and capabilities in providing care and by providing companionship and support, which will reflect positively on their quality of life and that of their loved ones living with ADRD and aging in place. During this Phase I project, we will develop of a prototype ACILIA using input from an advisory board of informal care partners and people living with ADRD. We will also conduct a pilot test for feasibility of ACILIA among 20 individuals who are in early-middle stage ADRD and their informal care partners to evaluate the usability and acceptance of ACILIA prototype. Successful completion of Phase I will lead to Phase II and evaluating its outcomes. improving informal care partners’ competency, reducing their feeling of loneliness, and reducing their stress levels in an adequately powered randomized controlled trial (RCT).