A team of students and doctors, led by UCL medic Hamzah Selim, has launched an innovative app which uses fun brain games to screen people for signs of dementia.
The Mindset4Dementia app, made available on the App Store this month, asks users a series of questions around age, health and lifestyle, before getting them to complete a series of playful cognitive exercises.
The games harness NHS guidelines and mirror the dementia screening process, looking at short and long-term memory, concentration and attention span, language and communication skills and awareness of time and place (orientation).
Mindset4Dementia screens for…