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Technological Devices for Elderly People with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review Study

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Current trends indicate a gradual increase in the number of elderly people in the developed countries, whose life expectancy thanks to better living conditions is prolonging. The higher age means more frequent occurrence of aging diseases such as dementia. In order to maintain quality of their life, more relevant support is needed. This can be done not only by their family members, additional caregivers, but also by different types of technological and health devices satisfying their specific needs. The aim of this article is to specify possibilities of using modern information technologies for patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This is explored with respect to the diagnosis of this disease and with respect to the technological devices such as monitoring, assistance, therapeutic, or diagnosis technologies which can enable an improvement of quality of life of these people in individual stages of this disease.

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  1. Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Blanka Klimova

  2. Department of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

    Petra Maresova

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    Lech Madeyski

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    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

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Klimova, B., Maresova, P. (2016). Technological Devices for Elderly People with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review Study. In: Król, D., Madeyski, L., Nguyen, N. (eds) Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31277-4_34

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