Sound Mind

Sound Mind is an application for the early prevention of dementia
It provides dementia prevention training anywhere, anytime.
AI helps prevent dementia.
Effective training is available without a specialist.

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What is it?
Features
Main functions

What is the Sound Mind?

A test calculation shows that the number of dementia patients over 65 in Japan can reach 7.3 million by 2025(*1), representing a significant problem.
Meanwhile, cognitive training at the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage is found to be effective(*2) in improving cognitive and language skills.
The application uses AI developed in collaboration with neurologists to provide each user with an optimized cognitive training menu.*1: Annual Report on the Aging Society: 2016, Cabinet Office
*2: Impairment and Dementia, Commun. Sci. Disord Vol. 19, No. 2, 199-212, June, 2014.

Features

01 Fun and effective training

More than 50 training patterns for the early prevention of dementia are available.
Each training task complies with the recommendations of AAN (the American Academy of Neurology) and takes one or more approaches from five domains: language, cognition, memory, thinking, and attention.
In particular, the app enables the language domain approach, which was only available in person with a specialist.
02 Simple and user-friendly operations

Training progresses through simple touch panel operations, allowing users to work on it as if playing a game.
Operations using voice recognition are also available, making the UI friendly to older adults and those not used to tablets or smartphones.
03 Optimized training for each user

The application uses AI developed in collaboration with neurologists to analyze training results every time to create a more effective menu for each user from more than 50 training patterns.
Users can do such optimized private training to prevent dementia effectively without specialists.
04 Admin screen to view usage information

Administrators can see each user's training results and usage information on the admin screen.
The training results can help create care plans and facilitate daily communication, and checking each user's usage information and status acts as an indirect monitoring activity.
05 Users can use the app on their devices.

The app is compatible with iOS and Android, so there is no need to prepare a dedicated device.
Once download the app, users can start training immediately.

Main functions

Function #01Training for the early prevention of dementia

The training includes many tasks like a game, such as losing at rock-paper-scissors-scissors with a hand displayed on the screen; or seeing a flowing arrow and answering the flowing direction.
Furthermore, the next question changes according to whether the user answered correctly for more efficient training.
Function #02Creation of optimized training menus

The application uses AI developed in collaboration with neurologists to analyze training results every time to create a more effective menu for each user from more than 50 training patterns.
Users can do such optimized private training to prevent dementia effectively without specialists.
Function #03Admin screen to view usage information

Administrators can see each user's training results and usage information on the admin screen.
The training results can help create care plans and facilitate daily communication, and checking each user's usage information and status acts as an indirect monitoring activity.