The Dementia-Friendly Home app

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[Title card: The dementia-friendly home app]

Narrator: It is a 3D experience – you take a walk through a home, and on the side of the app, it's actually got a floor plan, and you can touch on any area and it will take you to that area. Now, the other feature which is really cool, is it's got these little question marks, and when you hit on the question mark, there's a popup, and it tells you what you can do in that area of the home to make it dementia-friendly.

[Title card: Dementia Australia]

[Title card: National Dementia Helpline 1800 100 500. For language assistance, call 131 450]

[Title card: Visit dementia.org.au]

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The Dementia-Friendly Home app is available for tablets and mobile phones. Using interactive 3D game technology Unreal Engine, the app provides carers with ideas to make their home more accessible for people living with dementia. Many of the app suggestions are small, inexpensive solutions ranging to more significant changes.

With 70 per cent of people with dementia living in the community, the app enables the home to be made more dementia-friendly. This can allow the person to stay in their own home, enjoy their regular lifestyle activities and remain engaged with their community for longer.

The Dementia-Friendly Home app was developed through funding by the joint Commonwealth and State Government Home and Community Care program. The Deakin Software and Technology Innovation Laboratory (DSTIL) worked with Dementia Australia to develop this technology.

The Dementia-Friendly Home app is available for free on iPad/iPhones on the iTunes App Store, or for Android devices on Google Play.