# Connection, Independence, and Circular Support: Prompted Health Awareness Enabled by the At-Home Health Station

> **NIH NIH R43** · B A MAZE, INC. · 2024 · $405,614

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
In 2020, the financial burden associated with the care and treatment of individuals afflicted by Alzheimer's
disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD) amounted to $305 billion for a population of 6 million
(including young onset disease), and 2050 projections indicate that the costs will quadruple while the number
affected will exceed 13 million people. ADRD and cognitive impairment (CI) disability is characterized by a
diminishing ability to learn, recall information, and make decisions and judgments, changes that threaten the
CI/ADRD individual’s autonomy and ability to live independently. Access to the internet, smart devices, and
telehealth have the potential to help people with CI/ADRD maintain independence, but current technologies
can be difficult for these adults to use. B.A. Maze Inc. has designed a technology platform, the At-home Health
Station (AHS), that is a plug-and-play modular system designed to use the circular economy to simplify the
digital experience for the CI/ADRD-user and provide caregivers/administrator (AC) the ability to set unique
prompted health reminders via a secure multi-device management AHS-Webapp. The AHS system will ensure
consistent access to basic health measurements through remote patient monitoring (RPM) to promote health
function and independence. Our goal is to develop appropriate RPM and care systems to enable long-term
independence and health in people living with CI/ADRD and give caregivers a care and communication
platform for proactive health decision-making. Our objective in this Phase I project is to advance the design of
the AHS through usability testing and feedback from CI/ADRD individuals. The outcome of this development
study will be an AHS design that achieves a System Usability Scale (SUS) of ≥70 and a cognitive baseline of
usability for cognitively impaired adults aged 40+. The product of Phase I will be an AHS minimum viable
product that will be further validated and prepared for commercialization in Phase II.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10922026
- **Project number:** 1R43AG082596-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** B A MAZE, INC.
- **Principal Investigator:** Robert Mazur
- **Activity code:** R43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $405,614
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-25 → 2026-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10922026

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10922026, Connection, Independence, and Circular Support: Prompted Health Awareness Enabled by the At-Home Health Station (1R43AG082596-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10922026. Licensed CC0.

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