TY - CHAP
T1 - Monitoring of Lifestyle and Cognitive Status in Seniors at Risk of Dementia
T2 - The SmartAging Program
AU - Lizio, Roberta
AU - Del Percio, Claudio
AU - Janson, Jessica
AU - Guarini, Attilio
AU - Bonaduce, Roberto
AU - Armenise, Viviana
AU - Di Bari, Ivan
AU - Dalfino, Giuseppe
AU - Procaccini, Deni A.
AU - Gesualdo, Loreto
AU - Delpiano, Alberto
AU - Lombardi, Francesco
AU - Aldera, Carlo
AU - Babiloni, Claudio
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Lifestyle and risk factors affect the development of diseases, cognitive decline and loss of autonomy during ageing. In the Italian Smart Health 2.0 project, we developed the SmartAging program offering innovative ICT solutions, grounded upon the Italian Telecom platform (“Nuvola Italian Home Doctor”), to contrast cognitive decline and support “active” ageing. Specifically, the SmartAging program includes tools for daily telemonitoring at subjects’ home of: (i) eating behaviour, (ii) physical exercise, (iii) tobacco consumption, (iv) cultural, social and relational activities, (v) cognitive functions, (vi) weight, temperature, and blood pressure. Furthermore, a Point of Care device and a Self-Assessment Health Station (i.e. health medical equipment), in proximity to the subjects’ home, allowed periodic measures of blood biomarkers and physiological indices. To demonstrate the feasibility of this program, we performed a clinical proof of concept study for 16 weeks on 10 elderly subjects (5 being oncological long-term survivors). All subjects expressed a need for education and assistance concerning a healthy lifestyle. Most of them expressed a preference for ICT-based home programs to improve the lifestyle over institutional programs. All expressed satisfaction with the SmartAging program in terms of simplicity, clarity, adequacy and reported a positive impact on their quality of life. These results suggest that the SmartAging program fulfills all the requirements to be considered an innovative technological approach for the lifestyle education and telemonitoring of seniors, to prevent dementing disorders. Some concepts of the SmartAging program have been further developing in the H2020-MSCA-ITN-ETN BBDiag project.
AB - Lifestyle and risk factors affect the development of diseases, cognitive decline and loss of autonomy during ageing. In the Italian Smart Health 2.0 project, we developed the SmartAging program offering innovative ICT solutions, grounded upon the Italian Telecom platform (“Nuvola Italian Home Doctor”), to contrast cognitive decline and support “active” ageing. Specifically, the SmartAging program includes tools for daily telemonitoring at subjects’ home of: (i) eating behaviour, (ii) physical exercise, (iii) tobacco consumption, (iv) cultural, social and relational activities, (v) cognitive functions, (vi) weight, temperature, and blood pressure. Furthermore, a Point of Care device and a Self-Assessment Health Station (i.e. health medical equipment), in proximity to the subjects’ home, allowed periodic measures of blood biomarkers and physiological indices. To demonstrate the feasibility of this program, we performed a clinical proof of concept study for 16 weeks on 10 elderly subjects (5 being oncological long-term survivors). All subjects expressed a need for education and assistance concerning a healthy lifestyle. Most of them expressed a preference for ICT-based home programs to improve the lifestyle over institutional programs. All expressed satisfaction with the SmartAging program in terms of simplicity, clarity, adequacy and reported a positive impact on their quality of life. These results suggest that the SmartAging program fulfills all the requirements to be considered an innovative technological approach for the lifestyle education and telemonitoring of seniors, to prevent dementing disorders. Some concepts of the SmartAging program have been further developing in the H2020-MSCA-ITN-ETN BBDiag project.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_178
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_178
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85055315617
T3 - Biosystems and Biorobotics
SP - 888
EP - 892
BT - Biosystems and Biorobotics
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -