Home monitoring of computer interactions for the early detection of dementia.

Standard cognitive assessments to detect dementia are administered infrequently and often long after symptoms are clear to even family members. With the advent of new drugs and therapies to delay the onset of dementia, it is important to both detect signs as early as possible and to provide monitoring of cognitive changes. This paper describes unobtrusive methods for monitoring user interactions with a computer that serve as a basis for algorithms to measure cognitive performance.

Unobtrusive monitoring of computer interactions to detect cognitive status in elders.

The U.S. has experienced a rapid growth in the use of computers by elders.