Teamwork / Project for MIT APP INVENTOR HACKATHON 2020
Third Place of Adult Team
2020.07-2020.08
To help the Dementia patients and their family caregivers, we propose an assisted APP which combines Reminiscence Therapy and takes care of family caregivers’ mental health. (This is modified version of the original work for hackathon)
Teamwork / Project for MIT APP INVENTOR HACKATHON 2020
Third Place of Adult Team
2020.07-2020.08
To help the Dementia patients and their family caregivers, we propose an assisted APP which combines Reminiscence Therapy and takes care of family caregivers’ mental health. (This is modified version of the original work for hackathon)
There were about 50 million people globally suffering from dementia disease with growing rate of almost 10 million people per year. In Taiwan, there will be increasing 36 people with dementia (PwD) disease per day in the future 47 years. In addition, as found in some studies, the incidence of depression for family caregivers of PwD is around 40~50% (Lavresky, 2005). A research found: 176 pairs of “PwD” – “family caregiver” during 2007 and 2012 that the mental health symptoms of the family caregivers play a critical factor to predict the mortality of PwD (Lwi, Ford, Casey, Miller, & Levenson, 2017).
A solution to slow down the deterioration of the disease, and also pay attention to caregivers’ mental health and their grief adaptation in case of post-deterioration of PwD.
RT is a kind of non-drug psychological therapy which could slow down dementia, social isolation and decline in happiness by evoking personal life experience and emphasizing the retention of mental intelligence rather than existing obstacles.
The whole idea is about a support system for PwD and their family caregivers, and this design focuses on the APP:
We are a three-person team. I am reponsible to UI and UX design and make a basic functionable prototype of the APP; partner A studies Psychology and provides professional suggestions and information about Dementia and mental health; partner B helps us translate technical documents into English to meet the requirements of competition.
