Alzheimer patient’s home rehabilitation through ICT advanced technologies: The ALTRUISM project

Abstract

The AL.TR.U.I.S.M. project—ALzheimer patient’s home rehabilitation by a Virtual Personal TRainer-based Unique Information System Monitoring, funded by the Apulia Region, aims at developing a home rehabilitation system through the implementation of a Virtual Personal Trainer in order to remotely monitor and support patients affected by Alzheimer’s disease in performing exercises and rehabilitation programs, autonomously and directly in their home environment. It is a solution aimed at patients with mild to moderate cognitive impairments and which makes use of advanced ICT technologies such as a set-top box with Internet access and connected to a TV, a camera with gesture recognition features and an electronic device able to detect vital and biomedical parameters. Moreover, this system is designed and configured to be used both in home environments such as nursing homes, user’s premises and apartments and in hospital facilities as well. This paper gets through the project goals, the experimentation stages and the initial results.