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).