Forbes July 2, 2024
With many millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia, cognitive decline is a major issue. The cost of dementia care is a rude awakening for many families, and patients experiencing the troubling symptoms of these difficulties might despair when they hear that there’s really no “cure,” just treatment.
One of the problems is that dementia can look a lot like other forms of cognitive decline, like milder senility. So part of the process is diagnosis.
We may not be able to cure dementia. But we can at least get help figuring out how to diagnose it with tools based on something called HCI.
What is HCI? It stands for ‘human-computer interaction’. In some ways, it’s pretty much what it...