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Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of cortical dementia, is a degenerative brain disease for which there is no known cure but only a symptomatic therapy. Experts estimate that 26.6 million people worldwide had Alzheimer in 2006, which would multiply by four by 2050. The scope of the present paper is to present ALADDIN, α technology pLatform for the Assisted living of Dementia elDerly INdividuals and their carers, which aims at supporting maintaining health and functional capability, providing the means for the self-care and the self-management of chronic conditions, providing added value to the individual, leveraging his/her quality of life, while at the same time supporting the moral and mental upgrade of both the patients and their carers, as well as enhancing the home-as-care environment through the provision of tools for frequent, unobtrusive monitoring, via the development of user-friendly ICT tools.
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Perakis, K., Haritou, M., Koutsouris, D. (2009). ALADDIN, A Technology pLatform for the Assisted Living of Dementia elDerly INdividuals and Their Carers. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_133
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