“Memory Shots” helps dementia patients capture memories that were never shot on film, offering a major breakthrough in ‘photo reminiscence therapy’. Re-capturing cherished memories Photos are one of the most important forms of therapy to help dementia patients remember a moment in time and inspire them to talk. But not every cherished moment has a […]
Alzheimer’s Society, and agency partner New Commercial Arts, highlighted the shocking statistic that 1 in 3 people born today will develop dementia in their lifetime through a tactical ad launching the day before the Coronation and running the bank holiday weekend on Press, OOH, Social. The creative leads with the arresting headline, ‘A day one […]
Branding agency ODA has rebranded Active Minds, as Relish, the dementia wellbeing brand. The rebrand challenges the current dementia narrative of loss and its narrow focus on memory with a new proposition: ‘bringing joy to life with dementia’. The new platform will help the company realise it’s ambition to become a world-leading dementia wellbeing brand. There are approximately 850,000 […]
AXA and The Sunday Times have published a new video exploring technology that helps dementia patients ‘travel the world’ by bicycle. As part of its partnership with News UK, AXA and The Sunday Times are highlighting the work of the cycling initiative ‘Motiview’ created by eldercare specialists Motitech. Motiview allows elderly people and those with dementia […]
Alzheimer’s Society, McCann Worldgroup in Europe, and MRM//McCann Frankfurt are launching My Carer, an Alexa Skill, created to help improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with dementia in the UK. Globally dementia is expected to affect 50 million people by 2020. The cost of caring for dementia currently is $818 billion/£627billion. McCann developed the skill together […]
According to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds. There are more than 50 million people living with dementia globally. With the number of dementia cases, including Alzheimer’s disease, on the rise, it is shocking how low public awareness is of the condition that affects so many individuals and […]
People living with dementia and Alzheimer’s could soon be able to relive happy memories of the summer of 1966 and England’s World Cup win, thanks to a virtual reality (VR) project. ‘The Wayback’ – a free-to-download app – uses VR to spark memories and trigger conversations by fully immersing viewers in the sights and […]
Following the astounding success of the mobile game Sea Hero Quest, launched in 2016, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi London launches the world’s first consumer focused Virtual Reality (VR) game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia through gameplay. Sea Hero Quest VR aims to harness the power of VR gameplay to aid dementia […]
[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DT_PROJECT_STORY_4_MINUTE_FINAL_ENGLISH_320_MP4_070416.mp4[/KGVID] Deutsche Telekom unveils ‘Sea Hero Quest’. Developed in partnership with a team of scientific researchers from University College London, The University of East Anglia and gaming experts Glitchers, ‘Sea Hero Quest’ is a new multi-platform mobile game designed specifically to help advance the understanding of spatial navigation, and therefore understand one of the […]