Social Impact Project for Empathetic conversational AI agent - dementia care

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Project Description and Impact

Memory Lane Games is a Mayo Clinic award-winning dementia app serves caregivers in 100 countries every month. We leverage Gen AI to offer games personalised for each individual, on their hobbies and interests, favourite foods, music, pets and familiar places. Our games are designed to not only trigger positive memories but to improve social interactions with families and caregivers. We address social isolation - the #1 modifiable risk factor for dementia in older age - by helping people with dementia find something THEY want to talk about. We are presently addfing Latinox Spanish and Japanese but hope to offer our games in many, many first languages (people living with dementia often revert to their 1st language). Now we want to introduce an empathetic conversational AI agent able to engage, play along with a person with dementia and prompt relevant conversations. Not VR (too emmmersive) and not a character but just a wram friendly and engaging voice, like a friend, chatting with a purpose while playing Memory Lane Games. We are a small 6 person startup and welcome any and all help!! Thank you!

Learning Opportunity

We have shown our apps can improve quality of life for both the caregiver and the person with dementia. We have the potential to do this worldwide, with hyper-personalised engagement with Gen AI.

We are happy to share LOTS!! Thank you.