ALZHEIMER’S ASSISTANT using AI

Abstract

 Alzheimer's is a memory degenerative disease which affects a person in a gradual increasing severity. It is a type of dementia that affects the brain and it's behaviour, thinking and memory. Alzheimer'sis one of the leading causes of deaths in the older population all over the world.

Alzheimer's patients, as we know, have short term memory problems which leads to them having problems executing a plethora of day to day activities. Some of the well known issues include inability to recognise their family members or known people, forgetting about food and risk of wandering off due to forgetting locations and routes. They may even forget their own house or the doctors treating them. Hence a caretaker is assigned to them, to assist resolving the above issues. So we would like to use today's modern technology to implement similar assistance in terms of recognising people, reminders for medicine or food and so on, to the people affected by this so far incurable disease.

 In order to achieve our proposed goal because it is optimal as our data consists of images. The proposed system is an Android application with built-in capabilities for face recognition, location tracking and timely alert system. With our project, we have made an attempt to help the patients suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease by assisting them in their day-to-day activities using concepts of modern Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.