When Technology Remembers: Digital Health And Alzheimer ’s Disease

Gradual memory loss, cognitive decline, wandering off to unknown places, being unable to dress in the morning: to live with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease might be a heart-wrenching burden for both patients and their loved ones. As the global population ages, and the number of individuals suffering from these conditions rises, digital technologies must step forward and offer some solutions for early detection and disease management. That’s what we examined in detail here, so let’s see the intersections of digital health and Alzheimer’s disease. Have you seen Aurora Borealis? Your mind can play tricks on you even when you’re young, countless silly games leverage on that. However, as the years go by and your bodyparts start not to obey, these tricks on your mind could take on colossal measures – especially in cases of dreaded diseases of the brain, such as dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Have you seen Hollywood-movie, Aurora Borealis, where Donald Sutherland plays an old man with dementia insisting he can see the Northern Lights from his window? Or do you remember the hopelessly romantic movie, The Notebook, in which the main character, Allie, lives in a nursing home, where the love of her life tries to recall their memories for her by reading from his notebook? All these stories take on a daunting overtone as one imagines how the gradual impairment of cognitive functions, such as thinking, remembering, and reasoning, some crucial aspects to the human...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Medicine alzheimer Alzheimer's disease brain cognitive health dementia digital digital health elderly elderly care Healthcare Innovation medical technology Source Type: blogs