ABILITY - TelerehABILITation: TechnologY-enhanced Multi-domain at Home Continuum of Care Program

Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ETS30 enrolled

Overview

The Ability research project, funded in Italy within the Smart Cities and Smart Communities funding program (MInistry of University and Research, Operational Regional Programme, Lombardy, Axis 1, Operational Regional Programme - European Funding for Regional Development 2007-2013), aims at developing and testing the efficacy and the impact of a Personal Smart Health Community able to provide innovative trajectories for people with cognitive impairment, putting them at the core of a continuous and intertwining treatment and support from both formal (e.g. physicians) and informal (e.g. near relatives) caregivers, with special focus on home-based care. Within this framework of the Ability project the investigators test the efficacy of the home-based motor-cognitive rehabilitation program delivered with two different approaches: the Ability platform versus the usual care program

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Cognitive Impairments Dementia Alzheimer Disease

Ability platform programOTHER

The Ability program is an at home participant-tailored and technology-enhanced platform a) delivering tablet-based intensive (five days/a week for six weeks) motor and cognitive activities; b) monitoring from remote vital and physical health parameters (i.e., weight, Heart Rate, O2 saturation, daily steps, sleep activity).

Usual care programOTHER

Usual care at home program (paper and pencil cognitive activities; promotion of physical activity according to healthcare professional's advice)

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 YearsMax age: 85 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * diagnosed as mild AD or MCI due to AD (Albert et al, 2011) according to DSM 5 diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013); * MMSE score \>18 * school attendance (≥ 3 years). Exclusion Criteria: * dysmetria; * serious deficits in visual acuity, acoustic perception, and in routine communication skills.