Table 2.
Summary of the 12 articles extracted.
| Article name | Author name | Application name | Application platform system | Application objectives |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The potential of information technology to navigate caregiving systems: perspectives from dementia caregivers | Ruggiano et al.29 | Care IT | Android | Meet the common education and support needs of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/RD) caregivers |
| Environment-aware system for Alzheimer’s patients | Barreto et al.18 | AlzSense | Android | Provide the caregiver with the possibility of accessing the patient’s information on the server |
| iCare: applying IoT technology for monitoring Alzheimer’s patients | Aljehani et al.19 | iCare | IOS | Facilitate Alzheimer’s caregiving and avoid burnout |
| A mobile cloud-based system for Alzheimer’s disease | A. Ghanem, H. Alkhal20 | N/A One application for the caregiver and one application for the patient | IOS | Create two separate applications for Alzheimer’s patients and the caregiver to assist with task management, patient tracking, and setting up answers to patient’s commonly asked questions |
| A pervasive and ubiquitous mobile health application for tracking people with disabilities | Vergara et al.21 | Acompáñame | Android | Help caregivers to track people with disabilities |
| CareD: non-pharmacological assistance for dementia patients | Siddiq et al.22 | CareD | Android | Improve the quality of life of dementia patients and facilitate their caregivers by providing non-drug tool that provides a single platform that merges activities and cognitive therapy sessions for AD patients |
| UnderstAID, an ICT platform to help informal caregivers of people with dementia: a pilot randomized controlled study | Núñez-Naveira et al.27 | UnderstAID | Android and IOS | Utilize information and communication technology to support informal caregivers of people with dementia, especially when they need to cope with their feelings of overburden or isolation |
| Designing the ReACT App to support self-management of people with dementia: an iterative user-involving process | Øksnebjerg et al.28 | ReACT | IOS | Support self-management needs of people with dementia |
| Analyzing and implementing a mobile reminder system for Alzheimer’s patients | Alharbi et al.23 | MemoryLane | Android | Give Alzheimer’s patients the ability to have small memory that can help them remember all tasks to live |
| Mobile health applications and android toolkit for Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers, and doctors | Gupta et al.24 | AlzCare | Android | Utilize smartphones to help patients in carrying out routine activities and assist caregivers to take proper care of the patient |
| SMAI - mobile system for elderly monitoring | Stutzel et al.25 | SMAI Caregiver | Android | Make the communication between caregiver and health team faster, facilitate the care and elderly support in their daily living activities, and provide the health team information about the patient’s condition more often and in an organized manner |
| BLE Bluetooth Beacon based solution to monitor egress of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers from indoors | D. Surendran, M. Rohinia26 | N/A | Android | Detect and notify caregivers about the departure of people to risk locations from their residence zone |
AD Alzheimer’s disease, RD related dementias.