The BEDMOND project goal is to develop a system for an early detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, focused in elderly people while living at home. With such an early detection mechanism, health professionals can later apply an early stage treatment which will help the elder to live longer in an independent way at home, by delaying as long as possible Alzheimer’s disease appearance/consequences.

Up to date, the only information a health professional can have about the daily behavior of an elderly person just to derive from it an early stage of cognitive decline is mainly provided by the own person in face-to-face appointments. This information is very subjective and lacks continuous monitoring.

The BEDMOND system is based on a constant monitoring of the elders’ behavior during their daily living so it can be continuously matched against a user profile set up within a training period. The results of this periodical matching provide relevant information to the doctors to evaluate wether an Alzheimer’s disease at early stage could appear to start. This monitoring is done recurring to non-intrusive sensors that do not interfere with the user’s life.

After detection, the BEDMOND system will keep monitoring the user's behaviour in order to assure that the treatment is effective at delaying Alzheimer’s disease appearance.

In the BEDMOND project, the URC and UCH standards have an important role providing accessible user interfaces suited for the specific needs of the Elderly Users. It also provides to the Elderly User important and relevant services such has calendar, alarms notifications among others.

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