Deva: Dementia-friendly world

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Deva: Dementia-friendly world An interactive digital world for people impacted by dementia and their supporters to enjoy together. We're based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This scientifically-based program was co-designed with memory care resident. Activities reduce the sense of isolation and celebrate a well-lived. A digital therapeutics support for people living with dementia and their caregivers to express, discover and experience activities of daily living together in a beautiful virtual world. Available on your tablet devices - both Android and Apple - this fall. Mentia's digital therapeutics solutions have been co-designed from the ground up, and rigorously tested. Come experience the therapeutic potential of purposeful play.

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Deva World™ is the first-of-its-kind digital world where people with cognitive challenges do the doing! Codesign is a feature - which is why we say we are a dementia-friendly platform. Deva is a gentle and calming place to undertake (virtual) activities of daily living (ADLs) without risk or a sense of failure. We’ve built Deva to be a fun, interactive place that promotes self-expression, safe exploration, and family connections, with stimuli and customized content that delivers person-centered experiences. Every activity inside Deva relates to best practice non-pharmacological care, and every scene is constructed around dementia-sensitive design principles for the built environment. This opens up whole new new vistas and possibilities for people with dementia who feel isolated and limited by their illness.

As a person’s dementia progresses, independence is lost, confidence is eroded, and the world shrinks; we've employed PhD research-led principles of digital engagement to help people with dementia enlarge their shrinking worlds through the use of therapeutic virtual ones.

Uniquely, Deva's foundations comprise dementia studies, multimedia engagement principles and an exploration of human-computer interaction for people challenged by major neurocognitive disorders.

Deva is used by people living at home, in care communities, and because it sits in the cloud, you can access Deva World anywhere there is an internet connection, on any tablet. Professional caregivers report that playing Deva World helps them to better know their clients, and that they learn new skills. Deva is available on the App Store (bit.ly/devaapple) and Google Play (bit.ly/devagoogle).