The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging awarded $865,905 under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to Careband, Inc. to develop the Appraise to Assist system. This project grant will support Careband and its partner Eperture LLC to engineer a system integrating Careband's wearable device and Eperture's tablet platform. The system aims to passively and unobtrusively monitor, empirically measure, and facilitate engagement...
The Defense Health Agency awarded a $2,463,953 Project Grant to Biosensics LLC for the development of a "Wearable Sensor Platform for Remote Monitoring of Individuals on the Frontotemporal Dementia Spectrum." The award, made under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420), will fund the creation of innovative wearable sensor technologies and cloud-based software solutions to enable remote monitoring and management of frontotemporal dementia and related...
The County of Randolph received a $150,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Missing Alzheimer's Disease Patient Assistance Program (CFDA 16.015). The funding will be used to purchase GPS-enabled devices to assist with locating individuals with dementia or developmental disabilities, such as autism, who may wander from a safe location. The devices will report location information to eligible caregivers' smartphones. This program aims to prevent wandering...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) aims to advance geriatric palliative care by assessing the feasibility and acceptability of using radio frequency (RF) sensors to capture cardiopulmonary measures in nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The $451,721 award to Weill Medical College of Cornell University will also develop a machine learning algorithm to autonomously detect and predict respiratory...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) provides $613,044 to Rhaeos, Inc. to develop wireless, wearable sensors for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of chronic, non-healing wounds in older adults. The key products to be delivered include: A conformal thermal sensor (CTS) capable of localized measurements of wound temperature and moisture balance, which are key biophysical markers of wound healing. This will involve...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $835,056 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Trustees of Tufts College (Tufts University) to develop a multi-modal system of wearable biosensors and machine learning algorithms for the continuous monitoring of mobility and cognitive function in older adults. The project aims to advance personalized health sensing and informatics to enable early detection and prediction of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). Key...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $1,011,032 to Amissa Inc. to investigate the relationship between health data collected from consumer smartwatches and driving behavior in older adults to detect preclinical Alzheimer's disease (AD). The study aims to: 1) assess the correlation between health parameters like heart rate, sleep, and activity tracked on Apple Watches and cognitive function in older adults with and without...
Echowear LLC received a $255,719 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on December 1, 2021 to support its project titled "The Integration of Smart Wearables in the Telehealth Management Workflow." Under this award, Echowear LLC will develop and integrate smart wearable technologies into telehealth management workflows to advance the NSF's Engineering program goals of improving quality of life and economic strength. The Engineering program (CFDA #47.041)...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) under the Discovery and Applied Research for Technological Innovations to Improve Human Health program (CFDA 93.286) provides $173,700 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to develop wearable haptic sensory prosthetic devices. The key objectives are to: 1) Exploit attributes from both cutaneous and deep tissue sensation to communicate intensity levels, and 2) Use 3D printed soft actuators...
The National Institute on Aging awarded a $232,485 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to adapt and test the feasibility of an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled web app based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for family caregivers of people with dementia. The project aims to adapt the ACT-based web app, named WEACT, through collaboration with a community advisory board, and then evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and...