enabling seniors in need / alzheimer's disease patients to stay longer at their homes
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Enabling seniors in need /AD patients to stay longer at their homes
Amir Fish | 11/15/[email protected]
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12M+ Of older persons in the US live alone (28% of older population). Nearly 10 million adult children care for older parents, spend about 20.4 hours per week.A Profile of Older Americans: 2012
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49% of U.S. seniors report need help with routine daily activities, such as shopping, transportation, bathing, meal preparation, or managing medication.(source)
12%"rarely" or "never" receive the social and emotional support they need(source)
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15% of Dementia patients live alone
5.4M
People in the US living with Alzheimer’s or other type of Dementia
800Kliving alone
In 2015, Alzheimer’s and other dementias will cost the nation $226 BILLION.
Industry is recognizing remote care for ‘chronic conditions’
“Telehealth can have a much bigger role in the way physicians take care of their of their patients; it’s not only those urgent primary care conditions, but
also how we deal with patients requiring long-term care”
Roy schoenberg, MD, MPHCEO, American Well
Needs of Elderly / early-stage AD patientsDay-to-day:
Adhering to schedules
Going outside, spatial orientation
Monitoring Health:
Weight, eating habits (Anorexia)
Pills regimen
(some) Blood sugar levels
Physical safety
Stimulations:
Cognitive
Social
Physical activity
Walking / classes
Emergency:
Issues at home
Getting lostoutside
Medical
Needs
Safety
Daily essentials
Active routine
Emotional health
Avoid tripping, getting lost, keeping stove on, opening to strangers
Taking pills, eating and digestion, hygiene, etc
Attend activities, suggest things to do, stay connected (news, friends), TV
Create sense of value, social and family connections, alleviate stress and depression
How can technology help?Principles:
No “tech for the sake of tech”. Favor pragmatism over fancy.
Off-the-shelf over custom
Remote-controlled, cloud-based.
Technology helping me take care of my mom
Communication setup
Phone/GPS With Life360App - reporting location/TeamViewer
Webcam in entrance hall
Wifi Scale
Skype,WebMonitor, TeamViewer
Physician
Familycare-assist
Caregiver (remote)
care-Assist
Withings Scale
Daily remote check-in with caregiver (agenda planning, pill regiment, etc.)
Custom App shared with caregiver to help track health anomalies
The app connects to Withings API to get scale and blood pressure measurements.
The app alerts on large variation in KPIs.
Other sensors
Sleep pattern through Phone usage
Remote sensing of blood in human feces and urine
https://www.google.com/patents/US8802442Outsense.co.il
www.bioeyetech.com - Eye-tracking for early cognitive decline detection
Anxiety assessment from activity / Location history
Mood detection using voice http://www.beyondverbal.com/
Proactive Assistants/ Robots4) https://www.intuitionrobotics.com/ - has several intrestering features:
- Proactive - something that alexa doesn’t have yet.- Screen integration https://youtu.be/bvWccv8719M -
with two-way video etc- Human-like gestures from its “robot” companion to
grab senior’s attention (try using a notification or a ring from a tablet or PC for attention …)
http://www.bluefrogrobotics.com/en/buddy-elderly-senior-robot-alone/
http://videoconferencingdaily.com/healthcare/tablets-touchscreen-tech-becoming-mental-physical-lifeline-seniors/
GeriJoy - connecting caregivers w seniors/patients.
Babylon
Sense.ly.
Active intervention
Daily remote check-in with caregiver (agenda planning, pill regiment, etc.)
What’s nextExpand pilot from 2 families to 10
Cloud Data and analysis platform:
Common platform for collecting health metrics from the various providers; Analysis platform; ACLed access to caregivers; consider regulation in the space
Explore @home device - e.g. Amazon Echo (reminders, etc.)
Location APIs to simplify daily monitoring.
About me
Amir Fish, Sr. Product Manager ● Sr. Product Manager @Google (‘08 - Present)
○ Product lead on Location-based Display Ads ($300M+ ARR). Previously PM lead for Photos, Local/Offers.
○ Multiple VP-level awards; 4+ last years @exceed.
● Prior to Google, spent 12 years in Video Comm. and VoIP (‘96-’08)
○ PM on VC solutions, including various Telehealth implementations (NIH, Shasta Community Health Center, Hearing-impaired VRS, more; Companies: Radvision (Cisco’s OEM partner), Vocaltec)
○ Incepted multiple products from scratch in greenfield areas.
○ Technical Background as engineer and an R&D manager.
● MBA and BA in Computer Science, both from Tel-Aviv University
○ With honors/high honors, multiple Dean’s lists.
○ Attended first year of BA in Psychological Sciences (Tel-Aviv University)
● Passions:
○ All forms of communication: digital and analog, machine and human
○ Time with family
○ Cycling, playing piano
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