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Submitted by PatientsEngage on 18 December 2014

Alzheimer's Australia together with Opaque Multimedia has created a virtual dementia experience to educate people on what it's like to live with dementia.

The multi-sensory gamification simulation uses light, sound, colour, and visual content as well as kinetic senses to project images across the room to re-create experiences that dementia suffers often face, such as perceiving a dark mat on a light floor as a black hole.

"Dementia is a disease that is often very difficult to explain about what's going on, and therefore it's important to have a deep understanding of it and empathy," Dr Tanya Petrovich said.

"If you go through academia, it's often about looking at the brain cells and understanding how it works when you have dementia. What this dementia experience gives is an experience for people to start thinking what it's really like to be living with dementia.

"So if I'm getting angry, it's probably because of the difficulties I'm facing with expressing myself. If you get people in that position and start educating, that way it's much more powerful."

http://www.zdnet.com/article/educating-people-about-dementia-through-a-virtual-experience/

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