Cognition Tracker

6.2 million patients suffer from Dementia in the US¹. 83% of these seniors receive combined a estimated 15.3 billion hours of unpaid care every year, typically from their spouse or other family members². These caregivers routinely express that lack of knowledge about how fast the condition is progressing is a major cause of burden and stress. It results in unrealistic expectations of the capabilities of their loved ones and insufficient planning for their future needs.³ 

Currently, however, tracking the progression of dementia is prohibitively expensive for most patients, and generally requires specialist care and invasive tests. Given that only 1 in 3 dementia patients see a specialist at all in the first 5 years after their diagnosis⁴, it's clear that the barrier is extremely high today.

Cognitive Tracker has the power to do for dementia what home blood-pressure-monitors have done for vascular diseases. We have created a product that allows caregivers and general practitioners the ability to easily, reliably and inexpensively track the cognitive ability of their patient. We utilize a novel technique, employing an ensemble of audio- and text-based deep learning models to measure cognition through spontaneous speech.

By implementing this non-invasive, automated approach in an easy-to-use cross-platform application, and pairing this with features like longitudinal tracking, we are helping caregivers of dementia patients with their difficult but profoundly important responsibilities.

For more information, please visit https://cognitiontracker.com

^1,2 Statistics from the 2021 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures Report, Alzheimer's Association: https://www.alz.org/media/Documents/alzheimers-facts-and-figures.pdf

³ Sörensen S, Conwell Y. Issues in dementia caregiving: effects on mental and physical health, intervention strategies, and research needs. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011;19(6):491-496. doi:10.1097/JGP.0b013e31821c0e6e

⁴ Drabo EF, Barthold D, Joyce G, Ferido P, Chang Chui H, Zissimopoulos J. Longitudinal analysis of dementia diagnosis and specialty care among racially diverse Medicare beneficiaries. Alzheimers Dement. 2019;15(11):1402-1411. doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2019.07.005