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The treatment of Major and Mild NeuroCognitive Disorder (M-NCD, m-NCD) include pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, including cognitive training, recreational therapies, exercise, and interventions using technological tools. Proper cognitive training could be effective in preventing the evolution towards more severe cognitive impairment forms. A rehabilitative approach based on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) could be an effective and incentive tool to help prevent and early diagnose.
In this paper, we propose a suite of serious games that stimulates the rehabilitative tasks in order to verify both the feasibility of a non-immersive virtual training on daily living skills for patients with M-NCD and the generalisation of the improved skills in the natural environment.
Results show that virtual training could be a feasible approach for improving the generalisation capabilities of people affected by M-NCD doing activities of daily living. Feasibility, portability, the possibility of customisation and attractivity make Virtual Training an interesting approach for complementing and enriching the existing rehabilitation strategies.
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This study was partially supported by a fund from the Italian Ministry of Health “Ricerca Corrente” (RC n. 2634475, Drs. Panerai, Catania, Rundo, Ferri, Gelardi) and by a fund from the INNOLABS program of the Apulia Region “RECALL” (project n. QIRYKE8, Drs. Bevilacqua, Brunetti, and De Meo).
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Panerai, S. et al. (2019). Feasibility of a Non-immersive Virtual Reality Training on Functional Living Skills Applied to Person with Major Neurocognitive Disorder. In: Huang, DS., Huang, ZK., Hussain, A. (eds) Intelligent Computing Methodologies. ICIC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26766-7_63
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