Dementia Care: An Android Application for Assisting Dementia Patients

Dementia is a term used to depict a category of indications influencing memory, thinking and social capacities seriously enough to disrupt your everyday existence. Changes faced by dementia patient includes trouble in communicating, planning, problem-solving, memory loss etc. Due to lack of knowledge dementia patients are either lock up at home, sent to mental hospital or ignored. Caretakers and doctors can look after the patient once in a day or week but they can’t be 24X7 with the patient. Technology is advancing and Mobile Health has turned into a quickly developing innovation for patients. Various solutions were developed for dementia patients like Application for mind games, find a Doctor, GPS tracker, analyze behavior etc. It has become vital to foster something that can help patients in tackling their everyday tasks. This paper describes an application which is developed to assist patients, caretakers as well as family members. Application can run on all android devices and include functionalities like track location of patients using GPS, contain medicine reminder so that patient can take medicine on time, to-do list so that patient can remember work they need to complete, provide patient way to their home, fall detection using accelerometer in phone and location sharing. This system includes features which can help to improve their health without losing their freedom as well as assist caretakers.