A neurodegenerative disorder, the most common form of dementia.
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Implementing Cognitive Exercises in Electronic Form for Supporting Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: The Greek Case
Agisilaos Chaldogeridis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Kleopatra Kyropoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Amaryllis-Chryssi Malegiannaki (Greek Association of Alzheimer's disease and Related Disorders, Greece), Evdokia Nikolaidou (Greek Association of Alzheimer's disease and Related Disorders, Greece), and Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Copyright: © 2015
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8234-4.ch007
Abstract
Main goal of this chapter is the development of computerized cognitive exercises for rehabilitation of patients with Alzheimer's disease. More specifically, in traditional rehabilitation settings cognitive exercises are administered by using the paper-and-pencil procedure. This chapter is focused on the transferring of these interventions to an electronic form, enriched with multimedia and interactions that cannot be achieved in the printed form. The presented work tries to automate the procedure and facilitate the psychologist's work. Computer-based intervention programs can exploit all the possibilities of adjusting the difficulty levels of exercise, the speed, the images, using audible signals, accelerating the processing of results for psychologists and much more that add value to creation of such programs. This chapter explores whether and how this kind of exercises can be successfully transferred in an electronic form.