McKnight’s Senior Living December 11, 2023
An emerging benefit of artificial intelligence, and digital solutions, for handling dementia patients is the ability to create an easily-accessed profile of long-term care residents and their behavioral needs.
In fact, a digital aid is so effective in helping caregivers during episodes like wandering that it could reduce the need for psychotropic drugs, according to at least one AI-enabled app developer for memory care.
“You often have several caregivers coming into a home or residence, there’s different people working with the resident,” said Linda Buscemi, PhD, and co-founder of memory tech company TapRoot. “How do we know a problem [with a resident] is environmental? Gender? Time of day? An app is able to provide that information at your fingertips.”
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