Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

Published purpose

Non-pharmacological interventions centered around lifestyle modifications constitute promising approaches to delay the onset or progression of neurodegenerative diseases impacting cognition. An important challenge for the implementation of such interventions is the ability to deliver them in an accessible PAGE 4 and ecological context. To address these challenges, mobile technologies have been increasingly used over the past decade to provide health-related assessments or interventions for older adults in their own living environment. The extent to which mobile assessments and interventions can be integrated to improve health outcomes deserves further investigation. In this project, we will investigate the feasibility and benefits of developing and using a digital phenotyping approach based on remote assessments of sleep and cognition in older adults in the community. We will then explore whether such digital phenotyping may improve the outcomes of a web-based intervention that was developed to promote better sleep and brain health in older adults. This phenotyping approach will allow to collect information on lifestyle factors such as sleep, passively using sensors and actively via short surveys and tasks. Using it, the CRIUGM will run several user-based studies and validate its feasibility with older adults. The integration of measures from the phenotyping approach into the web-based intervention platform is to be used to improve an online sleep-related intervention by tailoring it to the individual’s needs. In addition, it is expected that this integration between remote assessments and intervention will also improve personalized feedback to the user during the intervention, and therefore improve acceptability, engagement, and adherence of older adults to the intervention.