Aging Care Health Network
Submitted: April, 2010
Internet application linking patients, family and care providers.

Promoting Healthly Aging through "Elder-Healer" Training
Submitted: April, 2010
The Elder Healer Program provides instruction to elders in caregiving skills they may use to bring comfort and support to others. Participants learn skills of Healing Touch which are commonly used in nursing and palliative care. Preliminary data suggests that the program may contribute to greater sense of life satisfaction, meaning, purpose, and other mental health outcomes in elders who receive the instruction and apply it in their relations with others in their natural social environment. We intend to develop a multimedia approach to the instruction. NIH-funded.

Investigating Enabling Domestic Environments for People with Dementia - Indpendent Project
Submitted: April, 2010
Aims and Objectives To develop technology and design solutions that help enable people with dementia to live independently, to empower them and to improve their quality of life wherever they live.

Untethered Monitoring - Software algorithms by CIMIT
Submitted: April, 2010
Our vision is that CIMIT will be the leader in minimally intrusive, reliable, low-cost wireless monitoring systems utilizing sensor platforms for life signs detection and health status assessment.

Automated Health Assessment / Motion Understanding - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
We are developing concepts and prototypes of "ambient health monitoring" technologies that become an invisible part of the user’s environment and aggregate information in a private personal health record.

Conversational Personal Medical Assistant - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
How can automated systems best help people solve their problems and get things done? Answering this question requires multi-disciplinary basic research in areas ranging from linguistics and psychology to computer science and systems engineering.

Computer-Based Cognitive Interventions for Persons w/ Alzheimer's Disease - California State
Submitted: April, 2010
Nidhi Mahendra, Ph.D., and colleagues will investigate if the use of computer technology can enhance these cognitive capabilities, particularly the recall and retention of information.

Alzheimer Friendly Virtual Home: Caregiver Home Safety Tool from Cornell Weill Medical College
Submitted: April, 2010
In-home care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease can be a stressful and overwhelming job. In addition to daily tasks, such as dressing, bathing, and cooking, there are also household hazards that need to be considered. For example, people with Alzheimer’s disease are prone to wandering off and are also at high risk for falls and other accidents such as burns.

Translating Dementia Care Research - Nutrition by Lightbridge Healthcare Research, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
While considerable literature exists on many aspects of nutrition in dementia care, the marketplace lacks a user-friendly resource for training caregivers such as the program described in this application.

Translating Dementia Care Research - Sleep Disorder by Lightbridge Healthcare Reseach, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
GOAL: Produce and evaluate an evidence-based, user friendly, and culturally sensitive training module, "Sleep Behavior Disorders: Night Wandering" targeting formal caregivers in nursing homes and assisted living facilities as well as informal (family) caregivers providing care in the home, using DVD/Web DVD technology.

Individualized Expert Systems for Weight Management by Prochange Behavior Systems (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Clinic-based programs for weight management are costly and serve only a small percentage of individuals. Population-based behavior change programs are needed to reach larger percentages of at risk individuals more cost-effectively. Preliminary research on the application of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) to weight management suggests that the model has the potential to guide the development of effective multiple-behavior interventions.

Automated Health Assessment- Molecular Monitoring - Univ of Rochester Center for Future Health
Submitted: April, 2010
Smart bandage is a platform of technologies targeted to reduce the burdens of chronic wound care. Smart bandage technologies integrate nanoporous optical sensors, photonic crystals and biodegradable silicon nanoparticles in a hydrogel polymer support.

Multimedia Support for Caregivers of the Seriously Ill - Oregon Center for Applied Science - NIH
Submitted: April, 2010
This project is the final program in the ORCAS eldercare worksite series. It will provide interactive multimedia support for employed family caregivers who are assisting with activities of daily living (e.g., dressing, bathing, feeding).

Biobehavioral Measurements of Alertness in Sleep Apnea by Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc. (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The proposed research evaluates the efficacy of the Alertness Profiling (AP) System as a method for objectively quantifying alertness in Sleep Apnea (SA) patients.

Depression Management System for Cardiac Patients from Polaris Health (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
The proposed Outcomes Management System for Depressed Cardiac Patients (OMSDCP) will assist cardiologists by screening for depression, helping to determine the most promising treatment alternative for depressed patients (Treatment Selection), and monitoring patients’ progress in relation to a predicted course (Treatment Management).

Development of the GAMECycle Exercise System by Three Rivers LLC (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
There is a need to create environments in which people in wheelchairs are able and motivated to exercise. The GAMECycle addresses this need by merging exercise with videogame playing.

A Multimedia Program to Promote Exercise by Older Adults by Oregon Center Applied Sciences (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Exercise is crucial to the health and quality of life of older persons. This project will develop an interactive system to help older users (>60 years of age) adopt and maintain an exercise program tailored to their personal interests.

A New Device for Dietary Assessment from Barron Associates (NIH)
Submitted: April, 2010
Instruments to assess food intake and dietary habits are used in a variety of research settings.

A Handheld Personal Health and Fitness Wizard from Barron Associates
Submitted: April, 2010
The project proposed herein involves the creation of a handheld health and weight management device, the LogaPDA.

Seneludens: games and interactive environments for maintaining anticipatory functions in the aging
Submitted: April, 2010
Seneludens focuses on maintaining anticipatory characteristics, which underlie human performance. At senescence, anticipation degrades to the extent that the body is practically reduced to its physical-chemical reality. Data describing how anticipation is expressed guides us in conceiving individualizable games and interactive virtual environments designed to stimulate brain plasticity. Playing will engage aging persons to remain physically and mentally active, and interested in pursuing activities that add quality to life (the spiral effect). A Seneludens Robot Companion is also planned.

Indiana University Gero-informatics Program
Submitted: April, 2010
The Indiana University Gero-informatics Program (GiP) develops, applies, and studies ways to use information and information systems to improve the health and healthcare of older adults. Areas of work have included telecommunications, electronic referrals, clinical decision support, self-management, patient-oriented decision support, and prescribing for older adults with cognitive impairment or in need of emergency medical services.

Staying Active with Technology
Submitted: April, 2010
The research study of “Staying Active with Technology” is currently being conducted by Sunghee H Tak, PhD at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of computer-assisted stimulating activity in elders with dementia.