He Needed a Caregiver As His Body Shut Down. AI Found Him the One.
Home Instead, a home healthcare services company, connected Christina Evers with Merrill Hale, who has ALS and needs full-time care.
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🤝 AI on the care floor2
AI Cameras Catch Parkinson-Like Gait Changes When Dementia Drugs Are Cut
A vision-based machine learning study of 61 dementia care residents found that ceiling-mounted cameras and gait analysis could detect gait severity changes. The changes were associated with acute antipsychotic dose changes.
Read the original →👥 Workforce shortage1
From AI Companion Robots to Smart Urinalysis — Seocho-gu Rolls Out Smarter Integrated Care for Isolated Households
Seocho-gu in Seoul will run a pilot smart integrated care project using AI companion robots and smart urine chemical analyzers through December.
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NewDays Brings Its AI-Driven Dementia Care Platform to Nevada, Expands Seed Round to $16M
NewDays, a Seattle startup using a generative AI therapy to treat people with mild dementia, has raised additional funding and closed its seed round with $16 million. The funding was led by Madrona and General Catalyst. The company also announced on Wednesday that it has expanded its services to Nevada, joining Washington, California, Florida and Texas.
Read the original →Brain Waves and Machine Learning Join Forces to Tell Alzheimer's and FTD Apart
A new explainable machine learning framework combines EEG signals with clinical data. It distinguishes Alzheimer's disease from frontotemporal dementia with 89.8 percent accuracy.
Read the original →III develops AI-powered audiovisual technology for dementia care
The government-funded Institute for Information Industry (III) and industry partners developed an AI-powered technology that turns old photographs, voice recordings and family stories into personalized videos for use in dementia care. The organization said so on Sunday.
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Navigating Medicaid & the AI Audit Bomb
The article lists 5 ways to fight back from the risks posed by automated payment reviews.
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AI Learns to Read Stroke Patients’ Strides with Just Minutes of Labeled Data
A semi-supervised adversarial autoencoder detects gait phases in real time for post-stroke exoskeleton control. It reaches 93.79% accuracy with only 10% labeled pathological data.
Read the original →The analysis and visual summary are in the Oct 18 AM issue. Japanese version here.