Postgraduate Projects
Smart-Space Technology to Combat and Monitor Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
Both Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are researched widely due to the difficulties they bring upon the patients as well as their caregivers. There is an urgent requirement to have feasible solutions to facilitate in diagnosing and monitoring demented people from home and many studies focus on utilizing the current technologies to accomplish it. Before implementing new technological solutions, it is apt to survey the current landscape of technology usage in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Hence, this study aims to present a systematic review by synthesizing the research studies on sensor technology to understand the current state of using sensor-based technologies in aiding to diagnose and monitor demented people.
A literature search was conducted by identifying relevant studies published after 2016 and 49 papers were included in this review from a total of 661 potential studies after screening as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Studies were categorized as; 1) Wearable Sensor Solutions, 2) Non-Wearable Sensor Solutions, 3) Smart Home / Assistive Technology-based Solutions, 4) Sensor-Machine learning Solutions and additional category for 5) Group studies (review studies) on sensor technologies. More than half of the studies contributed to monitoring people with dementia and a larger pro-portion relied on using smart home technologies in their solution. A significant number of interventions were identified to aid dementia and Alzheimer’s disease patients and it is more likely to expand in the future. Smart home technologies proved to be effective due to their independent and non-invasive nature and it would be effective for the future studies to focus on new interventions based on this technology.
Developed By:
Fathima Nusra Mohamed Nawas