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

项目摘要/摘要 目前，美国有570万人患有阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆(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，大约1500万无偿护理伙伴，其中大部分是家庭成员，越来越需要 执行会给他们带来巨大压力的复杂任务。造成护理伴侣压力的主要因素是： 1)对自己的照料任务能力缺乏信心，例如管理日常活动 日常生活能力(ADL)、工具性日常生活能力(IADL)及ADRD行为症状的变化 在疾病的过程中，以及2)因孤独感而与社会隔绝。 Benten建议通过创建阿凡达伴侣来解决这些问题，以改善 阿尔茨海默氏症患者的非正式护理伙伴(ACILIA)，这是一款带有SaaS平台的家庭套件，集成了 使用人工智能功能(即情感分析、情感分析和终身)的具体化会话代理 机器学习[L3]算法)，带有家庭扬声器、智能手表和移动应用程序，以支持 关爱之旅。ACILIA将为护理合作伙伴提供及时的指导和支持，此外- 关于如何管理照料任务的适当教育和培训。它还将从事自然 与护理伙伴对话，发现压力情绪，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，提高他们在提供护理方面的能力和能力， 这将对他们和他们的亲人的生活质量产生积极的影响，这些人患有ADRD，并在适当的地方老龄化。 在这个第一阶段的项目中，我们将使用一个非正式的顾问委员会的意见来开发一个原型ACILIA 关怀合作伙伴和患有ADRD的人。我们还将在20个国家中进行ACILIA可行性的试点测试 处于早、中期ADRD的个人和他们的非正式护理伙伴评估可用性和 验收ACILIA原型。成功完成第一阶段将导致第二阶段，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，减少他们的 一项动力充足的随机对照试验(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).