20. EBITEN SAMURAI - ”We-care”

1. Executive Summary
As the aging population is rapidly
increasing in Japan, patients with Alzheimer’sand Dementia are increasing with 1 in 5.4
elderly people having such symptoms [1]. There
are family nursing problems such as an 15.3%
increase in family members quitting jobs to carefor their elderly parents [2], while 50.2% ofDementia patients live alone from the lack ofcaretakers [3]. In addition, Japan faces young
caregiver issues where 80% of young caregivers
take care of disabled people and Dementiapatients [4]. Thus, we have designed a productthat attempts to support and take care of elderly
people with Alzheimer's and Dementia using
AR, GPS, and blockchain technologies. Our
product is a pair of glasses with AR technology,
synced with a smartphone application.
2. Mission
Our company will solve young caregiverissues, family members' job quitting issues due
to caring elderly, and the lack of care elderly
people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia receive
when living alone, while increasing theirindependence.
3. Product/Service Description

I-care glasses aim to be an extension ofone’s body, providing a device that helps protect
and support the elderly with Alzheimer's andDementia. We offer this through two functions:
1) Gamified Daily Activities and Medical
Assistance care (I-care glasses), and 2) theconnection to family through the U-care App.

The latest AR technology allows one tosee a gamified reality, where the world we see isenhanced through a game-like experience. It
provides the user with reminders of things theyneed to do in the form of tasks or missions,giving the user incentive to work on them. The
notifications and checkups that they get dependon the location they are in within the house suchas “Turn off the fire” when the individual leaves
the kitchen area through the GPS technology inthe glasses. It asks the individual “What should
you do?” before giving them an instructive
notification so that the individual goes throughtheir own memories and thoughts, to prevent theworsening of Alzheimer’s or Dementia.
Medical Assistance is achieved withmedicine notification and safety check features.
Medicine notifications are given through AR as
52.5% of people with Alzheimer's or Dementia
experience forgetting to take prescribed
medication [5]. The safety check features are
GPS detection, Heart Rate and Temperature
Monitoring, and Automatic Fall Detection
through the sensor on the temple tips of theglasses. When an emergency such as heart
failure or a fall is detected, a notification is sent
to the family through the U-care app as well as acall to the ambulance. If so, the glasses willautomatically display the user’s Non-Fungible
Digital Identification Data(NFDID) so that theindividual can receive the right assistance withthe arrival of an ambulance. This information isstored in blockchain
technology to keep theindividual safe from cyberhacking.
I-care is paired andlinked with the smartphone
U-care app, allowing family
members of the user tomonitor their GPS and set
up tasks and objectives thatthey need to complete at agiven time. The notification and setting can bematched to the individual and the severity of
their memory impairment. The GPS technology
allows the family to get notified when the users
leave the house to prevent the common issue ofthe disappearance of people with Alzheimer’s orDementia.

4. Target Customer/Marketing
The target market is family members
who have elderly relatives with onset
Alzheimer’s and Dementia. In Japan, the elderly
make up 29.8% of the population, which isexpected to rise due to a decrease in the birthrate. This will require the younger generation
having to look after their parents orgrandparents on a daily basis [6]. Thus, we willappeal to and advertise to the Japaneseyounger generation through social media by
ensuring that they will be able to look after theirparents from a distance, while the elderly willcontinue living on their own without becoming
overly dependent on their families. Unlike smart
watches and other wearable products, thisproduct that enhances user experience throughAR will be at an advantage as there are noproducts in the elderly product market where ARor smart glasses are in use at the moment [7].
5. Financials

The number of target audience iscalculated based on the population of Mild
Cognitive Impairment (onset Alzheimer’s andDementia) patients in Japan [8]. Softwaredevelopment cost includes labor cost for systemengineers and blockchain engineers. The cost
will be reduced by outsourcing the manufactureof hardware. We will make a profit from thesecond year and will require funding of¥100,000,000.
6. Conclusion
Our system will help prevent Alzheimer’sand Dementia from exacerbating whilelessening the pressures and the burden of
caregiving including the constant attention thatthe families are required to give.
By adopting this system, we can achieve
one of the Sustainable Development Goals:
Good Health and Well-Being for all. We will beable to create a society where the Quality of Life
increases for the elderly. The elderly generation
will be able to be more capable of taking care ofthemselves, and lessen the societal and familialpressure on the younger generation and allow
them to raise their QOL as well.
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