diAnoia: An app for carers of people with early stage dementia

diAnoia is a free smartphone application created by SciFY (www.scify.org) in collaboration with dementia professionals from Alzheimer Athens. It is aimed at the caregivers of people with mild cognitive impairment and at the early stages of dementia. diAnoia offers practical ways to help people with dementia improve their cognitive functions, their mood, functionality and quality of life. It offers cognitive exercises, ideas for spending quality time together, daily reminders, and allows monitoring of the frequency of mental stimulation. Thus, family carers and health professionals have in hand an everyday helper that: • offers printable cognitive exercises to work on memory, attention skills, in a familiar way for the elderly (paper and pencil). • makes exercises more attractive using storytelling: mental stimulation exercises are incorporated into stories that make exercises fun. • every day suggests ways to spend quality time together, sending notifications on your smartphone. • Reminds you what is important: key points we should not forget. • Allows you to keep track of the exercises performed (history). diAnoia is freely available in Greek, Englidh, Italian and Spanish. It can be downloaded on any Android device or be used through it web version. Thousands of beneficiaries currently use it. SciFY has also created a Marketplace that allows experts in dementia to create additional content in various languages. In this way, the content continues to grow!