AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being, Balance Human & Artificial Intelligence, Trust, Tolerance & Empathy
KEYWORDS
Dementia , Therapy, Senior, Singapore, pandemics
COUNTRY
Singapore
DESIGNED BY
Poh Yun Ru
WEBSITE
https://visionsofthefuture.sg/exhibition/rewind
Rewind
A cognitive stimulation therapy tool for people with dementia
‘Rewind’ by Poh Yun Ru is a cognitive stimulation therapy tool for people with dementia – who rely heavily on repetition in everyday life via sounds, smells and sights in order to retain memory. A motion-tracking tool produces visual and audio feedback through a paired device and asks the user to relate personal memories which they associate with the images and sounds that appear on the screen.
Due to their vulnerabilities to the coronavirus, older people are encouraged to stay at home, even to a state of near isolation with little physical contact with their families. The lack of suitable activities while being confined at home also contributes to the rapid deterioration of their cognitive faculties. Poh Yun Ru has designed these new activities to engage the mental agility and acuity in response to this.