The project aims to develop an MR application for older adults with dementia, to stimulate motor and cognitive functioning. It encourages movement in a known environment, helping to counteract the onset or progression of visuo-spatial disorders, and engages the subject with storytelling and narrative medicine, stimulating cognitive functioning.
Commonly, exercise with a therapist is carried out once a week or even less frequently, making it difficult to achieve continuity of treatment. Conversely, the proposed application is designed for autonomous daily at-home exercise, facilitating consistent practice and engagement. Therapeutic activity is organized as multiple games. In some of them, the user needs to collect virtual objects randomly placed in the house; other games will consist of declarative memory activities, such as language exercises (e.g., naming objects in the house), autobiographical and perspective memory exercises (e.g., recognizing family portraits and commenting them).
Commonly, exercise with a therapist is carried out once a week or even less frequently, making it difficult to achieve continuity of treatment. Conversely, the proposed application is designed for autonomous daily at-home exercise, facilitating consistent practice and engagement. Therapeutic activity is organized as multiple games. In some of them, the user needs to collect virtual objects randomly placed in the house; other games will consist of declarative memory activities, such as language exercises (e.g., naming objects in the house), autobiographical and perspective memory exercises (e.g., recognizing family portraits and commenting them).