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ADDietCoach: A Personalized Virtual Diet Coach for Alzheimer's Disease

Rasha Hendawi, Juan Li, Shadi Alian

Source Title: International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC)12(6)

ISSN: 1947-315X|EISSN: 1947-3168|EISBN13: 9781799867517|DOI: 10.4018/IJEHMC.20211101.oa6

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Hendawi, Rasha, et al. "ADDietCoach: A Personalized Virtual Diet Coach for Alzheimer's Disease." IJEHMC vol.12, no.6 2021: pp.1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.20211101.oa6

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Hendawi, R., Li, J., & Alian, S. (2021). ADDietCoach: A Personalized Virtual Diet Coach for Alzheimer's Disease. International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), 12(6), 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.20211101.oa6

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Hendawi, Rasha, Juan Li, and Shadi Alian. "ADDietCoach: A Personalized Virtual Diet Coach for Alzheimer's Disease," International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) 12, no.6: 1-18. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJEHMC.20211101.oa6

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Abstract

The aging population worldwide is expected to increase the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease. As there is no medical curative treatment for this disease to date, alternative treatments have been applied to improve the patient’s brain and general health. One of these efforts includes providing Alzheimer’s patients with proper food and nutrition. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-powered personalized virtual coach to provide diet and nutrition assistance to patients of Alzheimer’s and/or their informal caregivers. The virtual coach is built on top of an ontology-enhanced knowledge base containing knowledge about patients, Alzheimer’s disease, food, and nutrition. Semantics-based searching and reasoning are performed on the knowledgebase to get personalized context-aware recommendation and education about healthy eating for Alzheimer’s patients. The proposed system has been implemented as a mobile application. Evaluation based on use cases has demonstrated the usefulness of this tool.