Alzheimer's and Dementia Management
MEMORY AND IDENTITY
Present and Future from the Past
- Memory loss extends to autonomy, language, and relationships. But above all, it affects the patient's identity.
- Reconnect-ID helps manage any form of pathology that involves loss of biographical memory.
- The app guides the user acroos relevant events of their life. In this way, patients can defend their identity without depending on others, gaining security, autonomy, and quality of life.
HOW IT WORKS
A Genuine Method of Accessing Memory
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Through a 90-minute session, the patient transfers their biographical data to the app.
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After completing this unique sessions , the patient, the neurologist, caregivers, family, and psychologists will have a tool that offers a variety of uses and effects (see «Results»).
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The dynamic nature of the app will allow the user to access it at any time to enter, delete, modify, and add as much data as they deem necessary, ensuring its up-to-date stand.
Privacy by Design
The app’s design is conceived to preserve the privacy of personal data and to ensure the patient’s control and consent regarding its use and processing.
BIOGRAPHICAL PERIOD
The app does not aim to construct a complete biography of the patient, although it does work with an specific period of his/her (one to four decades).
The app excludes the early phases of the user’s life as an object of analysis.
What happened, in what context, how did you feel?
PROBLEM - SOLUTION
- In the field of neurological health, therapeutic strategies that adress pathology from a biographical perspective are scarce.
- Reconnect-ID focuses its action on the patient's subjectivity and two of its main forms:
The emotional factor, the user’s inner feelings
The context, the user’s external environment
- Reconnect-ID does not seek solutions in the patient's biology.
- Nor does it aim to train or stimulate cognitive abilities.
- Reconnect-ID does not work with sensory media (video, images,
music, etc.). In its current state, it is not a virtual reality app.
From Context to Memory
“Reconnect-ID is a genuine method of obtaining and processing
information based on the user’s conscious emotional memory.”
“Conscious Emotional Memory”
Reconnect-ID links the memory of a lived event or situation to its
emotional sediment, making the patient’s conscious emotional memory its
“working material.”
OBJECTIVE
Versatility with rigor
The app’s purpose (clinical, therapeutic, and care management in a single tool) had to meet three conditions:
COMPREHENSIVE
Applicable throughout the entire disease cycle, from diagnosis to the clinical phases prior to maximum severity.
CROSS-CUTTING
Designed for use by all stakeholders involved in the disease management chain, which necessarily includes neurologists, patients, caregivers, psychologists, and family members.
CLINICAL
It opens the door to considering and treating as a magnitude what are currently only «health factors,» scientifically recognized but clinically secondary.
THEORETICAL BASIS
“From Memory to Emotion”
Its difficult access
It houses “the emotion of memory,” a place where memories and emotions merge and become intertwined.
Its ability to be preserved in better condition for longer.
REMINISCENCE THERAPY
Techniques based on Reminiscence Therapy are most effective in influencing behavior and mood, that is, quality of life. They do so through human connection and emotional management.
The app acts on the so-called “reminiscence bump,” since humans best remember experiences from between the ages of 10 and 30.
"Your identity in one click"
The Cochrane Library (the highest standard of medical evidence) defines Digital Reminiscence (VR, photos, music, etc.) as «the best non-pharmacological anxiolytic.»
RESULTS
Protected memory and identity
I. LIFE MAP
The app provides information about:
a) Life stages.
b) Relevant past events:
II. TREASURE CHART
Displays a timeline that assesses the user-patient’s emotional state on a scale of 0 to 10.
III. EMOTIONAL HEALTH INDEX
Quantifies the patient’s mood and emotional state over the selected period in cumulative terms.
"The atlas of your life, your treasure map"
As a result of internal data processing, Reconnect-ID provides a quick overview of:
- The most significant life events,
- The year and place where they occurred
- The context (life stage) in which the events took place,
- How the events affected the person’s context in the main areas of their life: health, personal, professional, and financial,
- How those events continue to affect the patient’s current context,
- How they were experienced emotionally at the time, and how those feelings evolved,
- How they are experienced today (emotional remnant).
THERAPEUTIC VALUE
Alzheimer’s and dementia are human experiences that mobilize different groups of people and professionals. Each group will find a unique
therapeutic value in Reconnect-ID.
Patient-User
1. Increases self-confidence and security, as the patient knows they have a device or crutch that reaches where their memory is lost.
2. Improves autonomy, as they will not depend on others to retrieve their memories.
3. Reduces feelings of helplessness and vulnerability.
4. Decreases feelings of anxiety and frustration stemming from the difficulty of correctly placing events and situations in context.
5. Self-management. Facilitates the application of an active patient model, where the patient is a co-participant in managing their situation, resulting in better acceptance and personal empowerment.
Neurologists
1. Clinical monitoring and diagnostic support. Complements the clinical assessment of patients.
2. Greater accuracy. It allows more precise access to hard-to-reach areas of memory.
3. Doctor-patient relationship. It facilitates human interaction between the neurologist and the patient.
4. «Dementia-emotion» correlation. It objectifies the link between neurological pathology and the patient’s emotional state, in historical terms.
5. «Dementia-context» correlation. It makes the neurological pathology visible within the patient’s context, in historical terms.
Caregivers and family members
It facilitates interaction with caregivers and accredited personnel, as they will have a tool to use.
Psychologists
Meaning and significance. It accompanies the patient in a life-changing process that requires acceptance and adaptation. The app allows working with the user’s biographical information.
IMPACT
A renewed vision of dementia and Alzheimer's
SOCIAL
New paradigm
Within a multifactorial health framework, it complements the current biogenetic paradigm with the patient’s uniqueness, that is, their emotional
and contextual conditions.
It places the defense of identity at the center of the strategy against dementia and Alzheimer’s.
It advocates a view of dementia and Alzheimer’s as difficult life stages, although increasingly manageable.
CLINICAL
“From health factor to clinical magnitude”
By quantifying and making visible the impact of emotion and context on human health, Reconnect-ID opens the door to elevating the clinical significance of factors that are not clinically recognized.
Comprehensive and cross-cutting. Multiple solutions for the entire human and professional community, throughout the entire clinical course of the disease.
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