E&T Mag: Can tech improve care for people with dementia?

Harnessing technology could help give people living with dementia, or their carers, the opportunity to maintain and improve their independence, safety, and wellbeing.

As an elderly woman listens to a Geordie folk tune she hasn’t heard since she was a girl, her face lights up. After seven decades, the song has evoked her childhood.

When she was 18, Dorothy Stein moved from Newcastle, UK, to Canada, and now lives in a US care home. Though dementia has robbed her of her memories, the 89-year-old remembers the words to ‘Blaydon Races’ and sings and claps along; her delighted laughter is magical.

Read the piece on the E&T Website.