# Development of a Caregiver Application and AI-Enabled Intelligent Assistant to Support Families and Formal Care Providers in Caring for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

> **NIH NIH R41** · WHIPLASH TECHNOLOGY, INC. · 2020 · $488,772

## Abstract

PROJECT ABSTRACT
Family caregivers face daunting challenges in caring for persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is
no widely available mechanism to provide real-time, context sensitive support to informal AD caregivers that can
address the specific care needs of each AD patient. To address this critical gap, we developed CareVirtue, an
innovative web/mobile application for family caregivers that also assists formal care providers helping these
families. During this Phase I project we will validate the CareVirtue web/mobile application as a method for
caregivers to document daily care interactions with AD patients, and establish the utility of the generated data to
develop predictive models for an intelligent caregiver assistant application.
Looking ahead, our long term goal is to commercialize an AI-enabled intelligent caregiver assistant application
that provides on demand, highly-relevant information about AD patients to care teams, which will ameliorate
caregiver stress & burden, reduce health care expenditures, and improve quality of care for both AD patients
and their caregivers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10078993
- **Project number:** 1R41AG069607-01
- **Recipient organization:** WHIPLASH TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** Nicole E Werner
- **Activity code:** R41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $488,772
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10078993

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10078993, Development of a Caregiver Application and AI-Enabled Intelligent Assistant to Support Families and Formal Care Providers in Caring for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (1R41AG069607-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10078993. Licensed CC0.

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