Project Overview & Goals
Project Overview
We aim to develop an innovative and cost-effective comprehensive support system to support decision-making for people who have decreased decision-making ability due to cognitive decline or other reasons by a multi-disciplinary team including legal, technological and medical researchers. In this system, regardless of whether it is face-to-face or non-face-to-face, we will focus on the decision-making in our lives and develop tools and mechanisms that enables fair contracts and transactions, and disseminate them domestically and internationally through the collaboration with Decision-Making Support Organization Japan.
Achievement goal
Build a system that allows everyone to make decisions with peace of mind
- Multi-sectoral, multi-industry collaboration working group with financial institutions
- Responding to people who need help with asset management and financial transactions, such as older adults and people with dementia
- Development of support methods for people with disabilities and their families
- Tolerant Civil Law Working Group
- Consideration of the ideal civil law to include people with declining decision-making capacity
- Research and Development of Decision-Making Support
- Analysis of elements related to decision-making in daily life
- Development of tools for decision-making support
- Creating standards for good decision-making and fair decision-making support
1. Preparatory Committee for Establishment of Decision Support Center
Decision support for older adults in collaboration with financial, law and medical institutions
- Establishment of elderly-friendly finance institutions
- Establishment of insurance systems to support an active senior life
- Preparation of a guideline on assisting elderly customers in the banking
- Creation of checklist of “red flag” indicators of impairment for early identification of difficulties
- Building relationships between local communities and banks
2. Sensing technologies to monitor activities to aid diagnoses and disease management
Monitoring system using infrared sensor
- Monitoring using infrared sensor to assess a range of parameters such as activity levels and facial expression analysis to enhance screening and early detection of dementia
3. Sensing technologies using radio-frequency sensor
Monitoring system using array sensor
- Monitoring system using array sensor without damaging privacy
- Activity data extraction for monitoring
- Development of anti-crime measures for older adults along with rapid progress of IT
4. Identification of features in older adults’ decision-making
Elucidation of risk perception mechanism in older adults
- Verifying effects of aging and cognitive dysfunction on trust and risk perception
- Creation of a new academic field regarding older adults’ decision support
5. Development of capacity assessment tool using remote technology
Assessment of decision-making ability using remote communication technology
- Capacity assessment required for decision support
- Development of technology to support sensory impairment of older adults
