Person-centred care for dementia patients (front-end Android app) student #2

• Main Author: Ng, Poh Yen
• Other Authors: Chan Syin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77240
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Dementia is an incurable illness that affects the cognitive abilities of patients. Thus, it is crucial to have competent caregivers who are able to provide long-term and individualized care for patients. This causes stress for the caregivers as they are afraid of not performing well enough to support the dementia patients in their treatment. Therefore, a Person-Centred Care (PEAR) system was created with the aim to assist caregivers and supervisors in care centres with their daily operations in order to reduce the stress on them. This system consists of a PEAR Android application, used by caregivers, supervisors and doctors, which is a mobile platform for caregivers to access to the care preferences as well as personal information of their patients. As a Front-End team member, the focus of this project was to enhance on the existing PEAR Android application that was developed by previous batches of students. In order to adopt good user interface design, PEAR Android application was revamped entirely using the “Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design” by Ben Shneiderman as a guideline. While designing, considerations were made not only for aesthetics purposes but also to enhance the user’s experiences on the application. Thus, some new functionalities were also included. After the design phase was completed, the new designs and functions were then implemented in the current PEAR Android application. Apart from this, performance of the existing PEAR Android application was improved greatly through migrating direct querying from local database to using application programming interface calls. This report will provide further elaborations on the design and implementations of the PEAR Android application that will benefit the users and dementia patients.