Developing smartphone applications for people with Alzheimer´s disease

As the number of older people living worldwide and average life expectancy increases, the prevalence of chronic disease and age related impairments is also rising. Alzheimer´s disease (AD) is one of the most common chronic diseases later in life. In order to help assist persons with AD (PwAD) on a daily basis the current work has considered the design and evaluation of a number of smartphone based applications. These applications include an activity of daily living reminder, a picture dialing telephone and short messaging service (SMS) and a geo-fencing and one-hour reminder application. This paper provides initial details of the pre-study results, following the evaluation of the applications on a cohort of healthy adult users. In addition, details of how each of the application´s user interfaces have been redeveloped are presented.