Smart Task Reminder Model for People with Mild Dementia at Home

Abstract

Assistive technologies (AT) for people with mild-to-moderate dementia (PwMMD) have evolved over the years and there is a growing awareness of the benefits to users and the need to identify applicable and effective methods for personalized implementations to cater to individual needs. As a result, in this paper, a wrist-worn pre-programmable personalized smart Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) based task reminder system is proposed. The back-end of the system consists of a computer unit with an internet connection, a bulk SMS subscription service application, and a GSM modem connection. The front-end of the system consists of a user wrist-worn GSM module/receiver for receiving SMS task reminders from the back-end unit via the GSM network.