The document discusses challenges for Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers. It notes issues with mobility, nutrition, personal care, memory loss, and combative behavior. It poses questions about how technology could help with transportation, health monitoring, preventing wandering, and predicting and avoiding aggressive episodes to make care easier.

1. MIDTERM REVIEW
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3. going into their world
lying
encourage independence
bathing
nourishment
visual cues/reminders patient care feeding abilities
hands/utensils
daily issues transportation
interaction dexterity
combative emotional care
behavior & companionship
in/out of car
mobility
alzheimer’s
familiarity comfort
seeing family
in/out of bed
in/out of chair therapeutic
memories they
routine DO have
music
grocery store
distractions
shop lifting public environment at home
family member as caregiver
shopping mall no medical equipment
events
depression
transportation stress
forgetting where
they are
bus walking
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car

4. WHAT IF...
-toilets and chairs could help you sit and stand?
-there was an easy way to transport the mobility-
impaired? -without assistance of others?
-we can monitor vitals w/o touching patients? -to
prevent combative behavior?
-we can record bodily triggers in certain situations,
and avoid situations of stress? -action/reaction
-we could incorporate GPS into a patient’s bus pass?
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5. HOW CAN WE...
-reduce the time it takes to debrief?
-deliver pills in a safer and more effective way?
-integrate GPS into medical bracelets?
-predict anxiety to prevent fighting/combative
behavior?
-make family care easier and more efficient?
-transport up/down/in/out
-emotional toll of losing family member
-remind patients how to do things?
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6. How can we use GPS technology to prevent
wandering + help people with Alzheimer's travel
without getting lost?
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8. How can we make monitoring health easier
and more efficient for caregivers?
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10. How can we monitor the body to detect and prevent
aggressive behavior?
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11. Next steps...
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