8Overcoming the Stigma of Alzheimer’s Disease by Means of Natural Language Processing as well as Blockchain Technologies

The entire nations throughout the world are suffering from different kinds of chronic diseases. Chronic diseases exert a significant burden on the diagnosed sufferers. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains such a kind of illness. Self- and other imposed judgments are applied to the sufferers, since no operational therapy or protective measures are taken on behalf of this disease. As a neurodegenerative disease, this disease is also very challenging in nature and it has a significant impact on sufferers’ lives. The impact of this disease is far more dangerous than psychological issues, as the fear of being diagnosed with AD can cause people to avoid the initial diagnosis, treatment and even possibilities that could be beneficial to them and help fight against the disease’s progression. The attitude and flavor of writing on different social media platforms is analyzed using AI, i.e. artificial intelligence technology in addition to natural language processing (NLP), which is considered a handy tool for measuring public opinion on various topics. These approaches could be used to investigate the public perception of AD. To some extent, a number of medical institutions are very much concerned about the bad and unreliable records, and in these cases, security is not maintained properly. Implementing more secure and localized data movement and different origin techniques, ...

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