Evaluation of a novel Serious Game based assessment tool for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

ABSTRACT: Despite growing interest in developing ecological assessment of difficulties in patients with Alzheimer's disease new methods assessing the cognitive difficulties related to functional activities are missing. To complete current evaluation, the use of Serious Games can be a promising approach as it offers the possibility to recreate a virtual environment with daily living activities and a precise and complete cognitive evaluation. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usability and the screening potential of a new ecological tool for assessment of cognitive functions in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Eighteen patients with Alzheimer's disease and twenty healthy controls participated to the study. They were asked to complete six daily living virtual tasks assessing several co

SUBMITTER: Vallejo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5417424 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature