Recommendations for ICT use in Alzheimer’s disease assessment: Monaco CTAD expert meeting

• Published in: The Journal of nutrition, health & aging Vol. 17; no. 8; pp. 653 - 660
• Main Authors: Robert, Philippe H, Konig, A, Andrieu, S, Bremond, F, Chemin, I, Chung, P. C, Dartigues, J. F, Dubois, B, Feutren, G, Guillemaud, R, Kenisberg, P. A, Nave, S, Vellas, B, Verhey, F, Yesavage, J, Mallea, P
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Springer-Verlag 2013; Springer Paris; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag (Germany)
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Activities of Daily Living - psychology; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Aging; Alzheimer disease; Alzheimer Disease - psychology; Alzheimer's disease; Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Chronic illnesses; Clinical medicine; Clinical trials; Clinical Trials as Topic; Cognition & reasoning; Communication; Communications technology; Computer Science; Congresses as Topic; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Dementia; Dementia disorders; Disease; disease course; Disease Progression; disease severity; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Geriatric Assessment - methods; Geriatrics/Gerontology; Guidelines as Topic; health services; Humans; Image Processing; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental health; Monaco; Monitoring, Physiologic - methods; Neurology; Neuropsychology; Neurosciences; Nutrition; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; patients; Primary Care Medicine; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Quality of Life Research; Research Design; Sensors; Severity of Illness Index; Task Performance and Analysis; Technology; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; Monaco; Europe; Palo Alto California; Netherlands; France; United States > US; Switzerland; dementia; sensors; cognition; behavior; Alzheimer; information comunication technology; Nervous system diseases; Alzheimer disease; Use; Metabolic diseases; Cognition; Information technology; Recommendation; Cerebral disorder; Central nervous system disease; Degenerative disease; Behavior
• ISSN: 1279-7707; 1760-4788
• DOI: 10.1007/s12603-013-0046-3

Alzheimer disease (AD) and other related dementia represent a major challenge for health care systems within the aging population. It is therefore important to develop better instruments for assessing disease severity and disease progression to optimize patient’s care and support to care providers, and also provide better tools for clinical research. In this area, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are of particular interest. Such techniques enable accurate and standardized assessments of patients’ performance and actions in real time and real life situations. The aim of this article is to provide basic recommendation concerning the development and the use of ICT for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. During he ICT and Mental Health workshop (CTAD meeting held in Monaco on the 30th October 2012) an expert panel was set up to prepare the first recommendations for the use of ICT in dementia research. The expert panel included geriatrician, epidemiologist, neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, ICT engineers, representatives from the industry and patient association. The recommendations are divided into three sections corresponding to 1/ the clinical targets of interest for the use of ICT, 2/ the conditions, the type of sensors and the outputs (scores) that could be used and obtained, 3/ finally the last section concerns specifically the use of ICT within clinical trials.