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Alzheimer’s is a disease similar to dementia that causes issues with memory, considering and conduct. Symptoms grow gradually and deteriorate after some time, finally getting to be extreme enough to meddle with every day assignments. This makes an Alzheimer’s patient’s life extremely hard to do his/her every day errands. We plan to give an automated app that helps in the above said. The main cause of Alzheimer’s is the blocking of the neurons by mainly two proteins Beta-Amyloid and Tau. Beta-Amyloid clumps between two neurons which block the channel between them and the Tau is accumulated in the neuron which blocks the neuron. Maturing is additionally a central point in Alzheimer’s which causes dementia. With the drive of having a social effect and removing the deprivation of numerous families, we needed to make something to encourage such patients. Taking in the above components into thought, we have concocted a plan to make Alzheimer’s patient’s life less demanding. We are making a compact app which can help the Alzheimer’s understanding recall vital occasions, recognize close individuals, and make brisk calls to close ones and adjacent cab drivers. The entire app is done by putting a cherry on the best as a consistent talkbot which makes the UI more intuitive and vivid. We have looked into more than eight investigate papers and distinguished the irregularities and holes in the current advances and subsequently concocted the possibility of a predictable app which can cover these irregularities.
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Reddy, K.V., Sreenivas, G.M., Abhishek, C., Swarnalatha, P. (2020). Mobile Application for Alzheimer’s Patients. In: Das, K., Bansal, J., Deep, K., Nagar, A., Pathipooranam, P., Naidu, R. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1057. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0184-5_70
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