Environmental Scan of Existing Digital Health Solutions for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: Summary Report

Ambily Jose, Maxime Sasseville, Maxime Sasseville, Ellen Gorus, Ellen Gorus, Anik Giguère, Anik Giguère, Anne Bourbonnais, Samira Rahimi, Samira Rahimi, Ronald Buyl, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Marie-Pierre Gagnon

2023

Abstract

Digital health has added numerous promising solutions to enhance the health and wellness of people living with dementia and other cognitive problems and their informal caregivers. This work aims to summarize currently available digital health solutions and their related characteristics to develop a decision support tool for older adults living with mild or major neurocognitive disorders and their informal caregivers. We conducted an environmental scan to identify digital health solutions from a systematic review and targeted searches for grey literature covering the regions of Canada and Europe. Technological tools were scanned based on a preformatted extraction grid. We assessed their relevance based on selected attributes. We identified 100 available digital health solutions. The majority (56%) were not specific to dementia. Only 28% provided scientific evidence of their effectiveness. Remote patient care, movement tracking and cognitive exercises were the most common purposes of digital health solutions. Most solutions were presented as mobility aid tools, pill dispensers, apps, web, or a combination of these platforms. This knowledge will inform the development of a decision support tool to assist older adults and their informal caregivers in their search for adequate eHealth solutions according to their needs and preferences, based on trustable information.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jose A., Sasseville M., Gorus E., Giguère A., Bourbonnais A., Rahimi S., Buyl R. and Gagnon M. (2023). Environmental Scan of Existing Digital Health Solutions for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: Summary Report. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-645-3, SciTePress, pages 216-220. DOI: 10.5220/0011975600003476

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe23,
author={Ambily Jose and Maxime Sasseville and Ellen Gorus and Anik Giguère and Anne Bourbonnais and Samira Rahimi and Ronald Buyl and Marie-Pierre Gagnon},
title={Environmental Scan of Existing Digital Health Solutions for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: Summary Report},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,},
year={2023},
pages={216-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011975600003476},
isbn={978-989-758-645-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE,
TI - Environmental Scan of Existing Digital Health Solutions for Older Adults Living with Neurocognitive Disorders (Mild and Major) and Their Informal Caregivers: Summary Report
SN - 978-989-758-645-3
AU - Jose A.
AU - Sasseville M.
AU - Gorus E.
AU - Giguère A.
AU - Bourbonnais A.
AU - Rahimi S.
AU - Buyl R.
AU - Gagnon M.
PY - 2023
SP - 216
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0011975600003476
PB - SciTePress