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Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic
The prevalence of dementia is increasing and poses a health challenge for individuals and society. Despite the desire to know their risks and the importance of initiating early therapeutic options, large parts of the population do not get access to memory clinic-based assessments. Remote memory clin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36568790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1033515 |
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author | Owens, Andrew P. Krebs, Christine Kuruppu, Sajini Brem, Anna-Katharine Kowatsch, Tobias Aarsland, Dag Klöppel, Stefan |
author_facet | Owens, Andrew P. Krebs, Christine Kuruppu, Sajini Brem, Anna-Katharine Kowatsch, Tobias Aarsland, Dag Klöppel, Stefan |
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description | The prevalence of dementia is increasing and poses a health challenge for individuals and society. Despite the desire to know their risks and the importance of initiating early therapeutic options, large parts of the population do not get access to memory clinic-based assessments. Remote memory clinics facilitate low-level access to cognitive assessments by eschewing the need for face-to-face meetings. At the same time, patients with detected impairment or increased risk can receive non-pharmacological treatment remotely. Sensor technology can evaluate the efficiency of this remote treatment and identify cognitive decline. With remote and (partly) automatized technology the process of cognitive decline can be monitored but more importantly also modified by guiding early interventions and a dementia preventative lifestyle. We highlight how sensor technology aids the expansion of assessments beyond cognition and to other domains, e.g., depression. We also illustrate applications for aiding remote treatment and describe how remote tools can facilitate health education which is the cornerstone for long-lasting lifestyle changes. Tools such as transcranial electric stimulation or sleep-based interventions have currently mostly been used in a face-to-face context but have the potential of remote deployment—a step already taken with memory training apps. Many of the presented methods are readily scalable and of low costs and there is a range of target populations, from the worried well to late-stage dementia. |
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spelling | pubmed-97681912022-12-22 Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic Owens, Andrew P. Krebs, Christine Kuruppu, Sajini Brem, Anna-Katharine Kowatsch, Tobias Aarsland, Dag Klöppel, Stefan Front Public Health Public Health The prevalence of dementia is increasing and poses a health challenge for individuals and society. Despite the desire to know their risks and the importance of initiating early therapeutic options, large parts of the population do not get access to memory clinic-based assessments. Remote memory clinics facilitate low-level access to cognitive assessments by eschewing the need for face-to-face meetings. At the same time, patients with detected impairment or increased risk can receive non-pharmacological treatment remotely. Sensor technology can evaluate the efficiency of this remote treatment and identify cognitive decline. With remote and (partly) automatized technology the process of cognitive decline can be monitored but more importantly also modified by guiding early interventions and a dementia preventative lifestyle. We highlight how sensor technology aids the expansion of assessments beyond cognition and to other domains, e.g., depression. We also illustrate applications for aiding remote treatment and describe how remote tools can facilitate health education which is the cornerstone for long-lasting lifestyle changes. Tools such as transcranial electric stimulation or sleep-based interventions have currently mostly been used in a face-to-face context but have the potential of remote deployment—a step already taken with memory training apps. Many of the presented methods are readily scalable and of low costs and there is a range of target populations, from the worried well to late-stage dementia. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9768191/ /pubmed/36568790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1033515 Text en Copyright © 2022 Owens, Krebs, Kuruppu, Brem, Kowatsch, Aarsland and Klöppel. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Owens, Andrew P. Krebs, Christine Kuruppu, Sajini Brem, Anna-Katharine Kowatsch, Tobias Aarsland, Dag Klöppel, Stefan Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title | Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title_full | Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title_fullStr | Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title_full_unstemmed | Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title_short | Broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
title_sort | broadened assessments, health education and cognitive aids in the remote memory clinic |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36568790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1033515 |
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