MobiHealth News October 11, 2023
Besides gaining improved cognitive outcomes, it has also received positive perceptions and acceptance from elderly users.
A new mobile app developed in Singapore holds promise to prevent the progression of dementia by helping improve the multilingual thinking of senior folks.
HOW IT WORKS
A team of app developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has built what could be the world’s first multilingual app for dementia prevention, Ami (an acronym for Advancing Mental Invigoration).
Its prototype was recently launched at one of the active ageing centres of the social service agency Lions Befrienders.
This intervention tool, which is intended for both cognitively healthy seniors and those showing early signs of dementia, features three touch-screen games...