Scheduling Accessory Assists Patients with Cognitive Disorders
From: Medical Design Briefs - 07/2010 - page 11

Neuropsychology is the study of how the brain relates to behavior, emotion,
and cognition. Clinical neuropsychologists evaluate the behavioral effects of
neurological and developmental disorders stemming from brain injury, strokes,
multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Millions of
Americans are currently living with these cognitive disorders, including a
growing number of veterans returning from Iraq with brain injuries. The
disorders often result in cognitive impairments that make it difficult to
plan daily activities and stay on task, affecting independence, quality of
life, and employment. 

Attention Control Systems now offers people with memory, attention, and
cognitive disorders a computerized personal planning device to help them stay
on task by overcoming limitations in planning and fulfilling their daily
schedules. The device, called the Planning and Execution Assistant and
Trainer, or PEAT, is a pocket-sized PDA, complete with a graphical display,
touchscreen controls, an electronic calendar, an address book, and a built-in
phone. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/8134
http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/Spinoff2007/hm_3.html

Links:
Attention Control Systems, Inc.
http://www.brainaid.com/

Nine Technologies to Ease Pain of Getting Old
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/01/technology-for-the-elderly-entrepreneurs-technology-mit.html

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Omniscient Personal Assistant

By age 80, 55% of people have some form of measurable dementia. Attention
Control Systems, in Mountain View, CA, assisted by researchers at the
University of Rochester, is developing smartphone software that detects when
certain tasks have been forgotten. Users will wear a wristwatch bearing an
RFID tag; if the RFID reader detects, say, that the stove hasn't been touched
or that the user hasn't gotten out of bed, a soothing voice on their smart
phone would remind them. All data would flow to a server accessible online by
the user's caregivers. Expected to hit the market in 2012. 

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/01/technology-for-the-elderly-entrepreneurs-technology-mit_slide_2.html