Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (MAITC)

项目总结：总体 超过90%的美国老年人更愿意随着年龄的增长尽可能长地呆在家里。 然而，包括阿尔茨海默病(AD)在内的慢性病的流行与阿尔茨海默病有关 痴呆症(ADRD)可能使在没有实质性支持的情况下在家中成功老龄化的目标变得遥不可及。在- 家庭医疗保健技术很有希望提供许多必要的支持形式，但并没有 是专门为老年人、AD/ADRD患者、照顾者及其临床医生开发的。许多现有的 健康监测技术对于老年人来说是繁重的，不够准确，有 特定的算法偏差，缺乏足够的可用性，由此产生的大量数据往往无法提供 可以为护理人员提供有用信息并支持临床决策的信息。此外，许多目前的治疗方法 干预制度在远程交付、管理和适应能力方面是有限的 随着时间的推移，患者的需求和护理人员的能力。 马萨诸塞州老龄和阿尔茨海默病互联护理人工智能和技术中心 (MAITC)是一个跨五个地点的多学科中心-马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校，布里格姆 以及妇女医院、马萨诸塞州综合医院、布兰迪斯大学和东北大学- 旨在促进对新兴人工智能的开发、验证和翻译的跨学科研究- 增强技术以增强老年人、照顾者和临床医生之间的联系，以便 更有效地支持健康老龄化以及在家中护理AD/ADRD患者。要做到这一点 目标，MAITC将追求这五个目标。第一个是应用一个严格的过程，其中包括引出 利益相关者需要推动试验性研究的重点，并确定适用于 纳入试点研究项目。第二是形成和支持一个多学科的社区 工程师、计算机科学家、行为科学家、医学研究人员、护士和临床医生 推进MAITC的目标。第三是提供对最先进的、多样化的验证设施的访问 农村和城市地区的队列，以及翻译和商业化服务，以实现快速、强大的 以及人工智能增强技术的多方面验证和翻译。四是管理一名飞行员 项目批准流程，并确保试点项目响应利益相关者的需求，使用新兴项目 人工智能和相关技术具有改善老年人之间互动的巨大潜力，LAY 护理员和临床医生。第五是为开发人员、临床医生和其他利益相关者提供培训，并 向不同的研究、开发和实践社区传播研究成果，以进一步加快 开发有前景的技术，并促进采用经过验证的技术 MAITC。通过这些协调努力，我们希望改善老年人及其照顾者的生活。

PROJECT SUMMARY: Overall More than 90% of older Americans would prefer to stay in their homes as long as possible as they age. However, the prevalence of chronic illness including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Alzheimer's disease related dementias (ADRD) can make the goal of successful aging at home out of reach without substantial support. At- home health care technologies hold significant promise to provide many needed forms of support, but have not been specifically developed for older adults, AD/ADRD patients, caregivers, and their clinicians. Many existing health monitoring technologies are burdensome to use for older adults, are not sufficiently accurate, have specific algorithmic biases, and lack adequate usability, and the resulting deluge of data often fails to provide information that can usefully inform caregivers and support clinical decisions. Further, many current treatment and intervention regimes are limited in terms of their ability to be remotely delivered, managed and adapted to patient needs and caregiver abilities over time. The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (MAITC) is a multidisciplinary Center spanning five sites – the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brandeis University and Northeastern University – that aims to foster interdisciplinary research on the development, validation and translation of emerging AI- enhanced technologies to enhance connections between older adults, caregivers, and clinicians in order to more effectively support healthy aging as well as the care of patients with AD/ADRD at home. To achieve this objective, MAITC will pursue the five aims. The first is to apply a rigorous process which involves eliciting stakeholder needs to drive the foci of pilot studies and identifying promising technologies suitable for incorporation into pilot research projects. The second is to form and support a multidisciplinary community of engineers, computer scientists, behavioral scientists, medical researchers, nurses and clinicians working to advance the goals of the MAITC. The third is to provide access to state-of-art validation facilities, diverse cohorts across rural and urban areas, and translation and commercialization services to enable rapid, robust and multi-faceted validation and translation of AI-enhanced technologies. The fourth is to administer a pilot project granting process and ensure that the pilot projects are responsive to stakeholder needs, use emerging AI and related technologies that have significant potential to improve interactions between older adults, lay caregivers, and clinicians. The fifth is to provide training to developers, clinicians, and other stakeholders and to disseminate findings to diverse research, development and practice communities to accelerate further development of promising technologies and promote the adoption of validated technologies beyond the MAITC. Through these coordinated efforts, we hope to improve the lives of older adults and their caregivers.