You have never seen the cruel long decline and death of a family memberOne way to detect dementia is by counting the number of times an owner uses the 'Find My Phone/Watch' feature every week
Another one.
I’m sorry you had to. We had a deep look at diseases like that in a disabilities class I took. It’s heartbreaking and I hope it can someday be eradicated.
Nice... or how often you forget to put it ob the charger at bed time.One way to detect dementia is by counting the number of times an owner uses the 'Find My Phone/Watch' feature every week
It'll be a smash success if it merely creates a new industry of health monitoring that is ultimately won by someone else 10 years from now.The current idea around development of a cure for Alzheimers Disease (AD) is to start the treatment as early as possible. The reason is that reversing the disease seem difficult. In order to develop a drug for early intervention, you must be able to detect AD early hence the study is important. AD is diagnosed to day using cognitive tests or biomarkers (biochemical and imaging). It typically require unpleasant sampling from the spine or MRI (one of these test easily pays for Apple Watch) or interaction with specialists. Non-invasive, cheap and automated techniques is huge, also for drug development.
You don’t see any reason to partner with a pharmaceutical company? Who do you anticipate will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and bring to market a drug to treat those who are diagnosed—hopefully at a very early stage when it is presumably easier to treat. There is nothing on the market except drugs to treat some of the symptoms.You lost me at partnering with a pharmaceutical company.
They only do things that sell their particular drug. That's their business.
If you'd said a university or something, maybe I wouldn't have had to dig deeper to see who else was funding it, but this is bad from the word go.
Dementia is a big deal, but pharma can't help yet. This is not the hippy Apple of its roots.
Partnering with Goldman Sachs, the corporation that took over the US Treasury, bankrupted Greece & Italy (just for starters) was the last straw for hippy Apple. Any wonder it wants to bring back the rainbow logo - it's lost the hippy ethic and like diet coke - you're going to drink it just for the taste of it - it's a desperate attempt to look hippy now that it isn't.
Look up Moral Self-Licensing to find out why Cook is so big on social causes, to justify partnering with Goldman & Eli Lilly, allowing the military industrial complex on to Apple's board (Boeing), and who knows what else. One could argue a corporation the size of Apple, these establishment take-overs are inevitable and maybe Cook, like Jobs before him is resisting as much as possible.
But in this case, I don't see any reason to partner with a pharmaceutical company. This is a strike against Jeff Williams becoming the 'product guy' to lead Apple out of the Cook darkness of nickel and dime-ing upgrades, 4 years of iPhone design instead of 2, keyboards that fail still being brought to market years later, and so on.
And if you think this is tinfoil hat – don't ask me about Jobs' objection to the insecurity of Flash, then Kevin Lynch (Mr Flash) being put at the heart of Apple technology.
Apple has partnered with pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and health startup Evidation to determine whether data collected from the iPhone and Apple Watch can be used to detect early signs of dementia.
A research paper published this week and shared by CNBC lists researchers from Eli Lilly, Apple, and Evidation Health. The paper, called "Developing Measures of Cognitive Impairment in the Real World from Consumer-Grade Multimodal Sensor Streams," explores whether sensor data and activity info from smart watch devices can be mined for "physiological and behavior signatures of cognitive impairment."
According to the abstract, 31 people with cognitive impairment and 82 without cognitive impairment were monitored over a 12-week period, with 16TB of data collected. The study claims that the data was able to be used to differentiate people with early signs of cognitive impairment from those who were healthy.
People who had symptoms of cognitive decline typed more slowly, typed less regularly, relied more heavily on support apps, and sent fewer text messages. The study did not reach long-term conclusions as more analysis is needed.
In a statement to CNBC, Evidation co-founder Christine Lemke said that data collected from the iPhone, Apple Watch, and Beddit sleep monitors was used for the study. Apple acquired the company behind the Beddit sleep monitor back in 2017.Early detection of dementia is important because an early diagnosis can allow for better management of symptoms and quality of life improvements even though the progression of the disease can't be stopped. According to the World Health Organization, 50 million people around the world have dementia, with close to 10 million new cases surfacing every year.
Article Link: New Study Aims to Determine Whether iPhone and Apple Watch Can Detect Early Signs of Dementia
That was working for me until I started to forget where on my iPhone I had that App. Now where did I leave my iPhone...One way to detect dementia is by counting the number of times an owner uses the 'Find My Phone/Watch' feature every week
