Dementia Testing by Smartphone Shows Promising Results

Can remote cognitive testing via smartphones yield reliable and valid data to evaluate people for a type of dementia? Findings of a study of 360 individuals spanning over four and a half years indicate the answer is yes.

This smartphone app assessment could provide dependable and scalable remote evaluations of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), the most common form of dementia for people under age 60 and a neurodegenerative pathology that can result in speech, movement, cognition and personality shifts, study authors say.

The results of the study, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest the ease of use and dependability of the ALLFTD Mobile App — a smartphone-based platform for remote, self-administered data collection — showed moderate to excellent reliability with the participants and presents a complementary approach to traditional in-person trial designs.

View the JAMA Network Open article here.

To read the whole story, click here to subscribe.

Related Topics