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

Abstract

As Singapore’s population continues to age, the number of dementia patients is expected to rise [2]. For the guardian of dementia patients, taking good care of a dementia patient is a major concern. Alzheimer’s Association in their 2018 Dementia Care Practice Recommendations named Person-centred care as the core of providing quality care to dementia patients [1]. PEAR system was developed to assist care centres and caregivers in providing Person-centred care to dementia patients. The objective of the project was to maintain and improve the existing Android application in PEAR system. The project focused on improving user experience (UX) of existing PEAR Android application. To provide a great user experience (UX), it is important to have a good User Interface (UI) design and good performance. The project revamped the User Interface of the entire application. The author had implemented a total of 8 pages based on the new User Interface design. The performance of the application was significantly improved with the use of API and only fetching the necessary information for a page. Finally, the responsiveness of the application was also improved with the use of the Android AsyncTask class.