HAIDA: Biometric technological therapy tools for neurorehabilitation of Cognitive Impairment
This work addresses cognitive rehabilitation for elderly patients with conditions like Alzheimer's disease, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing music therapy approaches with added technological features.
The authors tackled the problem of cognitive impairment in elderly populations by developing HAIDA, a multi-platform support system for musical therapy that includes biometric analysis tools, and the system is currently in use and recording initial data.
Dementia, and specially Alzheimer s disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are one of the most important diseases suffered by elderly population. Music therapy is one of the most widely used non-pharmacological treatment in the field of cognitive impairments, given that music influences their mood, behavior, the decrease of anxiety, as well as facilitating reminiscence, emotional expressions and movement. In this work we present HAIDA, a multi-platform support system for Musical Therapy oriented to cognitive impairment, which includes not only therapy tools but also non-invasive biometric analysis, speech, activity and hand activity. At this moment the system is on use and recording the first sets of data.