Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
TRANSITIONS
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Award prize to reflect needs of other dementias & young onset dementias & caregivers
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Can we believe what people with dementia claim? Technology can!
Anterior pituitary gland (i.e., stimulated by Hypothalamus which release thirst related hormones) regulates thirst... more »
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Shared database monitoring dementia progression: Real-time communication.
Challenge: Developing a shared restricted database that includes CT scan record results, neurological tests, and medical interpretations from physicians, and care providers'... more »
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Bridging gulfs between tech and demented minds.
To address the difficulties in understanding people with dementia speaking, through the communication device (e.g., similar to the device that Stephen Hawking used or supercomputer or iPhone Siri) will allow clearer judgment to understand the needs of patients with dementia.
This approach is innovative because the device can 1) prolong... more »
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Connecting Medical Records
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Tag along Health Record (ipad, chromebook, like devices)
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Coaching for Advanced Health Care Needs for Decision Making in Alzheimer’s Disease
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
National online caregiver support group
An online group will allow caregivers to share ideas and support one another.
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Caregivers need better transfer technology to make ADLs faster/safer for dementia patients

Reason for entry: While the "ideas" site is for RFIs about the best ways to structure and frame the NIA's Eureka grant, this "application-like" idea attempts to motivate the NIA to focus the grant on gaps in assistive technology which make care giving challenging and unnecessarily costly. Drug therapies and more recently Internet-based information systems... more »
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AD TV with direct interacting host.
All day TV program talking with patients getting them to interact. Maybe music that people in their 70-80s would enjoy along with the words. Have the "host" talking to the person directly. In a nursing home environment little interaction due to costs, this would be everything from exercises to questions about food and places visited.
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Aging in Place: Home Safety Technology
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic
Measures or indicators judges might use to assess entries
1 = Not credible or convincing; 3 = Neutral; 5 = Very credible and convincing
1. The specific customer/stakeholder is clearly defined
2. The problem this customer is having is clearly described
3. This solution is clearly better (creates new value) than what exists now for this problem
4. The innovation/solution being proposed... more »
Optimizing NIA’s Eureka Prize Competition Topic