User manual
Read all instructions and warnings carefully before use.
Description
The BeCare Health mobile application allows the user to perform a series of directed activities to assess Falls risk and Cognitive changes. The activities are designed to assess on a mobile app the same neurologic functions tested during an in-person neurologic exam. The mobile application provides a platform for users to perform these activities in any setting as often as desired. Users can review the results of these activities themselves or can decide to share the results with their treating clinicians.
Intended use
The BeCare Health App is a mobile application that can quantitatively assess cognitive and motor function through a series of self-administered mobile app activities. Each assessment also has a short questionnaire.
Warnings
When performing any exercises involving walking, be aware of your surroundings to avoid falling or bumping into any nearby objects.
Instructions for use
The BeCare Health mobile application includes a suite of activities that the user can perform, and each activity includes a guided tutorial available from the activity screen. These activities are divided into 2 groups called Assessments. The particular assessment (Cognitive, Falls Risk) is selected from the App’s bottom row.
Selecting an Assessment brings up a page with the list of relevant activities:
Fall Risk
This activity measures how long it takes you to walk 25 feet.
WARNING: Be sure to look at your surroundings, not at your phone, when walking!
The Timed Up and Go (TUG) activity starts with instruction and a set of icons corresponding to the 6 stages of transitions: sitting, standing, walking, turn back, walk back, and sit back. You hold the mobile device in your hand so the screen is visible. When you press “Start”, a timer starts that continues until the activity ends. The phone detects your transition between each separate stage of the test. As each stage is detected, its time is recorded by the app, and the icon corresponding to the stage changes from the background color to green.
WARNING: Be sure to look at your surroundings, not at your phone, when walking!
You will be asked to hold the phone in one of your hands and swing your arms naturally as you walk. You will then be asked to do the same with your other hand.
WARNING: Be sure to look at your surroundings, not at your phone, when walking!
You will be asked to walk 10 steps in one direction and then turn around and walk 10 steps in the opposite direction. The app will count how many steps it takes you to turn around.
WARNING: Be sure to look at your surroundings, not at your phone, when walking!
Cognitive
This activity starts with instruction to collect various coins that appear at different places on the screen by tapping on the coin’s location as quickly as possible. Each time you tap the screen, the app records the time of the tap and the location of the tap vs the location of the coin.
You are asked to decode a message using decoding key. A series of symbols are paired with letters or words to be used as the key. The coded message is provided in symbols. You start the test by pressing a “Begin” button, and the test stops when you complete the decoded message.
For this activity, you are presented two animals and asked to memorize them. After several seconds, one of the animals will disappear, and you will be shown a number of different animals and asked to choose the image that just disappeared. If you cannot remember correctly, the game will reset.
You will see a series of 10 words written in colored letters. Tap on the ribbon that matches the color you see on the word. Do not tap the color you read. Please use the index finger of your dominant hand to complete this task.
In this activity, you will see and hear a short phrase, and then you must type that phrase using a special keyboard that changes every time a new phrase is heard. The app records the time to complete typing the phrase as well as the time interval and time variance between keystrokes. Please use the index finger of your dominant hand to complete this activity.
About me
In addition to the activities described above, the BeCare MS Link mobile application includes an “About Me” section where you can keep track of how you are feeling and complete helpful questionnaires (such as Health History, Quality of Life, Happiness, and Patient Health Questionnaire-9).
Customizing my app
You can customize your BeCare MS Link mobile application through the “More” page, where you have options to choose your own avatar, choose how fast you want to hear the voice over, and choose between the dark and light options
Sharing my results
You can share your results with your clinician using the “Healthcare Provider” option located on the “More” page. You will first need to register your Healthcare Provider, then request to share your data with them. From here, you can also see the status of your requests.
Disclaimer
BeCare MS Link is intended for educational and informational purposes only. BeCare MS Link does not and cannot diagnose your health condition, provide a medical opinion, and cannot diagnose your health condition, provide a medical opinion, and/or substitute for professional medical advice.It is the user’s responsibility to consult with a doctor or the other appropriately licensed professional if you have any questions or concerns about potential medical conditions as a result of the information you receive from using this product.
Manufactured by
BeCareLink
8 North Ward Avenue
Rumson, NJ 07760
www.becarelink.com