Chloe Goh Yan Yi Taylor's College
Dementia profoundly impacts memory, identity, and independence, causing significant distress for patients and caregivers. To address this challenge, we introduce Heirloom: a highly personalized, conversational AI designed to comfort and support individuals navigating cognitive decline. Through an intuitive companion app, families input cherished memories, relationship details, and multimedia files, creating a responsive, smart-speaker-style entity. Furthermore, individuals with genetic predispositions to Alzheimer's can proactively bank their memories over time.Heirloom engages patients in familiar, comforting conversations reflecting their own life stories, supplemented by dynamically projected photos and videos.
Beyond emotional resonance, the system actively promotes daily independence. It provides gentle cognitive prompts to help locate misplaced items encouraging mental engagement and delivers essential daily reminders for meals and hygiene routines. This empathetic innovation seamlessly blends personalized memory care with practical daily assistance, preserving patient dignity while offering invaluable peace of mind to their loved ones.