To fight depression, for example, it is important to get outside a lot and be active often. A wearable can measure this. When someone looks at the data measured by the wearable, they have the opportunity to see which days went well and to pinpoint possible causes or recognize a pattern. If, for example, someone felt bad on a particular day, the data could show that that person had an unpleasant telephone call from his or her supervisor or was stuck in traffic again. The wearable could then make a connection between the activity and the mental wellbeing, and then a solution could be sought through that information.
The method that is currently often used in practice is a diary that must be filled in by the patient. What happened today? How did you feel today? Such questions must then be filled in by the patient in writing, but that’s not ideal. For example, when someone fills out the schedule just before going to bed, they have to try to remember everything from the previous day. Moreover, we sometimes repress unpleasant events to protect ourselves. Also, we may not always feel it ourselves when we are experiencing stress.
Carewear offers a solution for this. The wearable itself registers what happens when. All this data can be looked back on later by both the professional and the client and the data is also collected over a longer period. That is valuable because in this way certain patterns can be recognized.