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    Good habits for a good life
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    Context: an ageing society.
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    Our goal.
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    Specific objectives

Good habits for a good life

Good habits for a good life

Avecen is a project that aims to improve the lives of people with dementia, their caregivers and family members, helping to prevent and self-manage neurodegenerative diseases characterized by a progressive deterioration of cognitive functions such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease.as caracterizadas por un deterioro progresivo de las funciones cognitivas como el Parkinson o el Alzheimer.

Context: an ageing society

An ageing society

The progressive aging of the population has led to an increase in age-related neurodegenerative diseases, among which dementia, characterized by a progressive deterioration of cognitive functions that significantly interferes with a person’s functional independence, stands out. Two of the most common pathologies today, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, are due to the progressive loss and degeneration of neuronal cells and occur more frequently in people over 65 years of age, as they are associated with the aging process

“In 2019, Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) estimates that there are more than 50 million people living with dementia worldwide, a figure that will increase to 152 million by 2050. The current annual cost of dementia is estimated at US$ 1 trillion, a figure that will double by 2030.”.
“About 6.5 million people suffer from Parkinson’s disease in the world. Of these, between 160,000 and 300,000 are in Spain. According to experts, these figures will triple by 2050 due to the increase in life expectancy of the population and the diagnostic and therapeutic advances related to this disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the country.”.

Our goal

Our goal

The main objective of AVECEN is to offer a set of technological tools to patients, health professionals, caregivers, family members and the general population, to facilitate the self-management of neurodegenerative diseases of the affected population as well as decision making. This general objective will be achieved through the achievement of: población afectada así como la toma de decisiones. Este objetivo general se alcanzará a través de la consecución de:

Specific objectives

Specific objectives

  • To offer a virtual assistant for the surveillance and self-management of patients’ health status, designed as a system of constant monitoring and evaluation through the execution of clinical routines, which generate recommendations adapted to the patient’s condition, and in the evaluation of their frequent or habitual behavior at each moment, allowing to understand their evolution over time and to assess the extent to which a worsening of the health status takes place.
  • To improve patients’ adherence to clinical routines, to the prescribed treatment and, in general, to good management practices for neurodegenerative diseases, especially physical activities, healthy lifestyle habits, and psychological and cognitive assessments of their state of health.
  • To facilitate the assessment of patients’ condition and behavior by health professionals in order to improve the adaptation of clinical routines and treatment to that condition, which, in turn, leads to an improvement in the patient’s quality of life from the point of view of mobility, independence, responsiveness and social relationships.
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