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Using technology to better support an aging population
November 9, 2017 | Written by: Birgitta Tunning
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SimpleC, an IBM Watson partner, is seeing 60% improvement in health outcomes with its personalized media based therapies delivered via an integrated set of mobile apps built with IBM Cloud. Every 30 seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Caring for these individuals requires an incredible amount of resources and many times doesn’t deliver an appropriate quality of life.
Typical treatment for dementia-related symptoms – apathy, confusion, and verbal or physical aggression – have relied heavily on antipsychotic medications and specialized treatment and housing. But costs and side effects from these drugs, and removing people from their homes, often exacerbate these challenges.
SimpleC provides much needed support for patients and their care givers through the use of an easy-to-use, computer-based, multi-media input and delivery environment. With IBM Watson, delivered through IBM Cloud, this system can assist clinicians, care givers, and family members to provide a more personalized care programs to loved ones. Examples are:
- Using IBM Watson cognitive services and the IBM Cloud platform, SimpleC built media-based therapies.
- SimpleC processes and analyzes more than 750,000 transactions per day to help model patient profiles, predict and generate care program recommendations.
- Songs, photographs and recordings of familiar voices are used to mitigate behavioral symptoms of dementia by triggering or restimulating memories.
Learn more about IBM and SimpleC’s partnership here.
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