Digital Convergence: Better Solutions for People with Dementia (Analytics and AI for Healthcare)

This book focuses on using analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to offer a high-quality value proposition to address dementia, a growing and concerning global healthcare problem.By enabling better decision-making support, minimizing medical errors and use of specific treatment strategies, digital technologies are key to effective care for People Living with Dementia (PLWD).By taking a unique triumvirate approach of focusing simultaneously on people issues, technical issues and process issues, the critical success issues are identified. The first point of concern is the different major stakeholders, including PLWD, their family carer, their challenges and major barriers and facilitators.Next, the vast pool of digital tools is considered, such as the different forms of mobile, platforms, sensors, IoT, chatbots, avatars, robots, augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality.This leads next to looking at the important considerations for the design and development of digital he