Apraxicare: um aplicativo para auxiliar o fonoaudiólogo no tratamento e acompanhamento de pacientes acometidos por apraxia de fala

Abstract

Elderly population in Brazil has been growing in a much more intense rate than the global scenario. Due to that, new challeges will approach, such as the elderly health care, since age is a risk factor for a lot of diseases and systemic conditions, namely the cerebrovascular accident (CVA), of which one of its possible consequences is acquired apraxia of speech. Due to Brazil’s raised amount of smartphone usage, specially for internet access, the spectation of elderly population number’s increase on the years to come and, also, due to the elevated cost of acquired apraxia of speech’s treatment, a demand for a mobile app, to help patients and speech therapists, emergedwhich resulted in ApraxiCARE, an mobile app that will allow not only patients to execute activities developed by speech therapists but, also, the later to accompany their patients’s evolution. The application was developed with Flutter, using Firebase to store its data and the good programming practices on the market. On this study, the features developed for the speech therapists’s use will be presented with more detail.