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Alzheimer’s disease now affects about 5% of people over 60 years and in Italy, it means about 500,000 patients. It is the most common form of dementia, a state caused by an alteration of the brain function that implies a serious difficulty to conduct normal daily activities. This work describes the experience gained with development and experimentation of an ICT system to remotely support the care of the person with cognitive impairment within the AAL ACCESS Project.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Italian Ministry of University and Research through the project “ACCESS—Information Technology for Assisting Carers at Home” (Fund for Research Enablement “FAR: Fondo per le Agevolazioni alla Ricerca”, prog. 280/281–2012 call AAL-JP European Programme).
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Raimondi, G., Casacci, P., Sancesario, G., Scordamaglia, B., Melchiorri, G., Pistoia, M. (2017). Telemedicine for Dementia-Affected Patients: The AAL-ACCESS Project Experience. In: Cavallo, F., Marletta, V., Monteriù, A., Siciliano, P. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 426. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54283-6_28
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