PROPHETIC · An innovating Personal Healthcare Service for a holistic remote management and treatment of Parkinson patients.

PROPHETIC:An innovating Personal Healthcare Service for a holistic remote management and treatment of Parkinson patients.

Parkinson's disease (PD) belongs to movement disorders and is characterized by the presence of predominantly motor symptomatology (bradykinesia, rest tremor, rigidity, and postural disturbances). It is associated with a diversity of non-motor symptoms, together with late-onset motor symptoms (postural instability and falls, freezing of gait, speech and swallowing difficulties). The primary symptoms are the results of decreased stimulation of the motor cortex caused by the insufficient formation and action of dopamine produced in the dopaminergic neurons of the brain. PD is both chronic and progressive. There is currently no cure for PD and associated cost in terms of quality of life as well as significant health and social care expenditures, already exceptionally high, are expected to increase as the ageing population continues to increase. As none of the existing interventions aiming at facing PD has been really effective in the long run, interest has increased for the development of systems and methods to monitor PD patients with potential for facilitating the management of symptoms. In this context, the design of efficient ICT broad-based management system integrating remote-monitoring of multi-parametric factors, decision support for the medical staff, friendly, adaptable and personalized care (physical therapy, neuro-therapy, speech therapy, follow-up of the medication compliance based on “serious gaming”), PD patient and family education, general wellness maintenance, should represent a viable solution. Hence the overall goal of PROPHETIC is to exploit smart miniaturized systems and advanced information systems towards the development of an infrastructure facilitating disease management by: • remote and continuous monitoring of PD patients in a non invasive manner, • sharing management plan data flow in a well organized network of carers, • supporting healthcare providers diagnosis by advanced processing of multi-parametric and relevant information compared to PD, • displaying friendly exercising and gaming interventions (VR) according to the level of motor and speech impairment as well as for enhancing medication compliance • following over time the person' status in order to adapt the physical and/or speech therapies as well as the medication program and avoid risks and side effects • supporting all concerned stakeholders facing PD through e-learning.

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