The Development of an Application for Prevention of Dementia

Abstract

The application for preventing dementia aims to evaluate the efficiency of the dementia prevention application and assess user satisfaction with the application. This application provides the guidance on basic knowledge on Alzheimer's disease, the Health care methods to prevent Alzheimer, a self-assessment tools and also the brain training games to prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.  The developer has followed the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in progressing with the development of the application.  Visual Studio Code, the Dart programming language, and the Flutter Framework are employed as development tools for the application. Testing of the application involves the use of the Black Box Testing technique, along with a 5-level Rating Scale questionnaire. Within the analysis, statistical tools like arithmetic mean and standard deviation are employed. The results showed that effectiveness evaluation of the prevention guidance application was at a very high level, and user satisfaction with the dementia prevention application was at a good level.