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Award: Fortune Recommends names Livindi the most comprehensive older adult monitoring system

Post category:Pilot A6 - Livindi
Post published:July 10, 2024

Firsthand product testing testing and expert review have resulted in Fortune magazine recommending Livindi as the most comprehensive home monitoring system and recognition as one of the 6 best older adult monitoring systems. What they said: "Regarding elderly monitoring systems, none seem as detailed and comprehensive as Livindi. This system provides a tablet with closed captioning, sensors, a call button, and a concierge service. This elderly monitoring system can be customized to fit your loved one’s needs and even includes the option for wearable technology if you want coverage outside of the home. This system not only can track activity and report any changes, but it also offers fall detection and biometrics information (for a fee). Although this system has a higher upfront cost for all of its technological features, its monthly service fee is…

Acquisition: Kinto is strategically acquired by Rippl Care

Post category:Events Pilot A5 - Kinto
Post published:April 30, 2024

SEATTLE, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Rippl, a leading dementia-focused specialty care provider, announced it has acquired Kinto, a Boston-based, AI-enabled dementia caregiver support platform. This combination will fuel reaching an exponentially larger group of people living with dementia and their caregivers with human-centered care far beyond traditional bricks-and-mortar models. Kinto was founded to harness technology to dramatically improve the dementia caregiver experience and we have validated that our model can do just that. By partnering with Rippl, we can combine, enhance and scale our solutions to become leaders in virtual dementia care. AI will revolutionize dementia care navigation and caregiver support by vastly expanding access and availability of this critically needed service.Joe Chung, Kinto FOunder and CEO Human-driven, tech-enabled, AI-powered This partnership brings together Rippl's proven dementia care model, validated by clinical research including the UCSF Care…

New Product Launch: MyWords available on AppStore

Post category:Pilot A14 - IMHC
Post published:April 29, 2024

IHMC has released the current version of MyWords application AppStore. This version was developed as part of IHMC's pilot award from MassAITC. Corresponding tutorial materials and information about the application will be added and updated at this public website: https://github.com/MyWords-app/MyWords

Grant Funding: a2 Collective Pilot Award to explore LLMs as a support to caregivers of individuals with dementia

Post category:Pilot A5 - Kinto
Post published:April 19, 2024

The Rippl team (formerly Kinto) led by Joseph Chung is part of a GY3 pilot award collaborating with McLean Hospital to evaluate Rippl's LLM as a resource for caregivers of individuals with dementia and to determine if it gives accurate and useful information and appropriate emotional support to caregiver queries. Source: https://massaitc.org/2024/04/18/creating-a-framework-for-large-language-models-for-caregiver-support-in-dementia/

An academic-industrial partnership for AI-based sleep staging in the elderly using an EEG headband and a smartwatch

Post category:Early Diagnosis of ADRD Pilots Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Joyita Dutta, UMass Amherst. This project will develop AI techniques for at-home sleep staging in seniors using multimodal data from EEG headband and smartwatch devices.

Passive monitoring of walking cadence as a novel tool for aging and cognitive health assessment

Post category:Early Diagnosis of ADRD Pilots Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Honghuang Lin, UMass Chan Medical School. This pilot project explored the use of wearable accelerometers to passively monitor walking cadence as a potential early indicator of cognitive decline in older adults.

AI-Supported In-Home Brain Assessments for Older Adults and Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

Post category:Early Diagnosis of ADRD Pilots Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Quan Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital. This project will create an adapted version of NINscan, a Near-Infrared Neuromonitoring Device, with the goal of enabling older adults and AD patients to collect high quality brain and physiological data at home.