Engineering Leadership Professional Program Interactive Elder Care for Patients with Dementia : Virtual Assistant for Dementia Periya Gopalan, Soonam Park, Amir Nissan, Umesh Kelkar This work was created in an open classroom environment as part of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) developed and led by Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu at UC Berkeley. There should be no proprietary informaEon contained in this work. No informaEon contained in this work is intended to affect or influence public relaEons with any firm affiliated with any of the authors. The views represented are those of the authors alone. Cau$on : Overuse of technology can lead to “Digital demen$a”
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Engineering Leadership Professional Program
Interactive Elder Care for Patients with Dementia : Virtual Assistant for Dementia
Periya Gopalan, Soonam Park, Amir Nissan, Umesh Kelkar
This work was created in an open classroom environment as part of the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) developed and led by Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu at UC Berkeley. There should be no proprietary informaEon contained in this work. No informaEon contained in this work is intended to affect or influence public relaEons with any firm affiliated with any of the authors. The views represented are those of the authors alone.
Cau$on : Overuse of technology can lead to “Digital demen$a”
Electricity, chemistry, hydraulics, opEcs etc. based on every field of science
Si based
Priceless! EsEmated $3 million dollars
Dr. John Kelly, IBM talk at ET Conference in AMAT, 2013
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Alzheimer’s DemenEa Not Normal Aging
o Memory o Language o PercepEon o Reasoning o Personality
Cogni.ve Impairment
• Currently there is no drug, therapy or treatment for Demen.a
Amyloid plaques, Neurofibrillary tangles
• DemenEa is not a disease. • Its a combinaEon of symptoms
called syndrome
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Industry Change Hypothesis
• With no cure in near future, Alzheimer’s demenEa caregiving will present economic challenges
• Although caregiving products and services industry is growing there are opportuniEes for innovaEon
• Caregiving services which include assisEve technology soluEons for safety, alerts, emoEonal and behavioral management etc will create maximum value for caregivers
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Economic Cost of Demen.a
224% Global increase in Demen.a by 2050
In millions
Caregiving • Provide 952 M hours of unpaid care per year
• Economic value of slightly above $10B • Working families provide 75% of caregiving
• $72B out of esEmated $102B caregiving cost
Caregivers • 21% report missing work • 8% reduce work hours, • 11% quit jobs • 4% change jobs