Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement - CREATE V
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Summary
The goal for this project is to support the cognitive components of older adults' health-management activities through development of digital assistant technology tools tailored to three exemplar healthcare management task activities: accessing support services, managing healthcare finances, and using the health-management tools provided by Medicare.gov. This project will leverage the machine-intelligence expertise of the research investigators collaborators and the research investigators experience in developing and evaluating technologies for supporting the health and wellbeing needs of older adults to harness technology to provide cognitive support to aging adults, including those with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and lower SES. The project will be comprised of three phases.
Description
Deployment of technology in healthcare and day-to- day activities is increasing and advances in technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly aimed at supporting older adults. Yet, aging adults are often ignored in design, and robust research evaluating the usability, safety, and efficacy of these systems with older adults is limited. Even among older technology adopters, rapid changes in technology pose challenges in terms of the constant need for adaptation and continual learning. Further, there remains a lag in uptake among many older adult sub-groups, including ethnic mi…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 60+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: Project 1: * 65+ years of age * Able to read English at the 6th grade level * Have 20/60 vision with or without correction. Project 2: * 62+ years of age * Able to read English at the 6th grade level * Have 20/60 vision with or without correction. * Clinical diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) * Subjective cognitive complaints * Evidence by clinical evaluation * Clinical Dementia Rating Global scale of 0.5-2.0 * Probable MCI * Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score of 18-26 * No major Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) impairments * Geriatric De…
Interventions
- BehavioralProject 3, Phase 3: Intelligent Decision Support Tool
An innovative intelligent decision tool for health decisions aims at providing health management support for older adults with and without MCI.
Locations (3)
- Florida State UniversityTallahassee, Florida
- University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, Illinois
- Weill Cornell MedicineNew York, New York