Authors:
Ambily Jose
1
;
Maxime Sasseville
1
;
2
;
Ellen Gorus
3
;
4
;
Anik Giguère
1
;
5
;
Anne Bourbonnais
6
;
Samira Rahimi
7
;
8
;
Ronald Buyl
9
and
Marie-Pierre Gagnon
1
;
2
Affiliations:
1
VITAM Research Center in Sustainable Health, Quebec City, Canada
;
2
Faculty of Nursing Sciences, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
;
3
Frailty in Ageing Research Group, Department of Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
;
4
Geriatrics Department, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
;
5
Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
;
6
Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
;
7
Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
;
8
Mila-Quebec AI Institute, Montreal, Canada
;
9
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Digital Health, Aging, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Environmental Scan.
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 d
igital 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.
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