Expanding a Multimodal VR Fitness Platform to Remotely Assess, Monitor, and Report Cognitive and Physical Function for Seniors

Investigators:
Jennifer Stamps and Kyle Rand, Rendever, Inc.

MassAITC Cohort: Year 2 (AD/ADRD)

Initial Proposal Abstract: This pilot study will evaluate the utility of RendeverFit™, a VR fitness platform, in terms of its acceptance by and relevance to older adults. We will recruit 30 physical therapy patients aged 65 and older with mild cognitive impairment to moderate dementia along with their cohabiting caregivers. The care recipient/caregiver dyads will use RendeverFit™ together for 24 weeks and will be assessed at baseline, mid-, and post-project with surveys and functional tests of cognition and physical function to be used as convergent evidence for the development and validation of ML algorithms to interpret the data generated in the VR platform. Convergent evidence from the “gold standard” testing of cognitive and physical function will be used to begin testing the validity of the data processing algorithms developed to convert the sample-level sensor measurements into novel outcome measurements of cognitive and physical function.

The long-term goal of this work is to advance RendeverFit’s VR fitness platform analytics to remotely monitor and assess changes in cognitive and physical function and alert the individual, their caregivers, and their healthcare practitioners to those changes.

Outcomes:

  • Grant Funding: R41 AG092119
    Continuation of VR technology development focused on the caregiver side of the dyad. Public Health Relevance Statement: The VR-CARES project is an innovative, collaborative effort that invites home health dementia caregivers into the design process of a virtual reality platform seeking to mitigate their work-related burden and social isolation by… Read more: Grant Funding: R41 AG092119
  • Poster Presentation: a2 National Symposium 2024
    Title: Expanding a Multimodal VR Fitness Platform to Remotely Assess, Monitor, and Report Cognitive and Physical Function for Older Adults Authors: Jennifer Stamps, Kyle Rand, Thomas Neumann, Erin Naffziger, Yuval Rosen
  • Accelerator Entry: Google for Startups Cloud Program
    Due partly to the cloud space needed for their MassAITC pilot project, Rendever was accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud Program and received over $200,000 in cloud credits.