Kaigo Supplement Patents AI System for Dementia Care

Kaigo Supplement Inc., a company that provides business support systems for the nursing care industry, is pleased to announce that it has obtained a patent for the new “Good Practice System” function added to the “Care Record App,” a nursing care record system developed and provided by the company.

The Good Practice System for Dementia is a new function that uses AI to instantly determine the optimal way to interact with people with dementia in the field of nursing care. It was developed through joint research between Kaigo Supli and Hiroyuki Tanaka, an associate professor at the Graduate School of Rehabilitation Sciences at Osaka Municipal University, and is currently being tested at two corporations in Hyogo Prefecture.

This system uses assistance data accumulated in “care record apps” at nursing care facilities across the country to comprehensively analyze information about the care recipient (age, gender, level of care required, type of dementia, etc.), the attributes of the caregiver (age, gender, qualifications, years of experience, etc.), and the time and circumstances of care, and presents the most appropriate way to interact with each individual care recipient in real time.

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This has created a system that enables anyone to provide stable, continuous, high-quality care, regardless of the caregiver’s experience.

The quality of care is continually improved through a cycle of assessment → care plan → intervention → monitoring. Research conducted by our company and Osaka Municipal University has revealed that the quality of intervention has a significant impact on improving dementia symptoms and behavior.

The Good Practice System analyzes records of interventions and provides practical feedback to improve the quality of care. This will improve issues such as how caregivers interact with those receiving care, which has traditionally relied on their own experience, and issues in the field where a lack of human resources has meant that not enough time can be devoted to training young caregivers, and will support the development of human resources who can immediately contribute to the workforce.

SOURCE: PRTimes