PHILADELPHIA: There’s no cure for dementia, but diagnosing it and treating it can go a long way toward improved quality for life those affected, as well as their caregivers.
Since 2012, IBM Research, in partnership with ten academic and industrial partners have been working on a way to identify those at risk, faster, and with greater ease.
Of course, these days that means using a smartphone or tablet.
The project started off at DemCare, said IBM scientist and head of the project, Aharon Satt.
“Everybody loses some of the cognitive capabilities in normal aging, but in dementia, which is far more rapid than the normal decline and eventually, people lose some of their cognitive capabilities and there is a lot of interest to detect it very early,” Satt said.