Person-centered care for dementia patients (front-end systems development)
Dementia is a disease that affects the cognitive abilities of a person. Typically, it affects seniors (above age 65) however, it is not unheard of for dementia to affect younger people (below age 65) as well. This form of dementia is called early-onset dementia [1]. As the number of dementia p...
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Nanyang Technological University
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171954 |
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| Summary: | Dementia is a disease that affects the cognitive abilities of a person. Typically, it affects seniors
(above age 65) however, it is not unheard of for dementia to affect younger people (below age 65)
as well. This form of dementia is called early-onset dementia [1]. As the number of dementia
patients grows, the need to take greater steps to care for the afflicted patients increases. One such
step is to facilitate better person-centered care for the patients. Hence, the Person-Centered Care
(PEAR) System is devised.
PEAR is a system that is designed to coordinate the operations between the different roles required
to give a dementia patient the best form of person-centered care. It provides caregivers with all the
necessary information required to perform their duties as well as providing a means for all the
crucial roles to monitor the patient and communicate important updates related to the patient to
each other.
This project has already been in development for some time. Recently, the application was
migrated to the React Native framework by the previous team of developers. Therefore, there are
many critical changes to the applications’ codebase. Due to such changes, there will be instances
of improper code, bad practices, and bugs. Documentation for the code is also lacking.
With the issues above, an objective of this team’s front-end developers is to comb through the
existing code and to refactor when necessary to produce good and understandable code. As with
all major changes, thorough testing for new and old components/changes will be conducted as
well. Aside from refactoring, another objective to produce clear and detailed documentation of the
existing items within the application such that troubleshooting and onboarding for new developers
can be smooth sailing. |
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