Touch&Talk- the Dementia-friendly card game

The purpose of this project was to create a product that would facilitate communication with people people diagnosed with a type of dementia. Our response consisted of a card game that used tactile information in order to help prompt conversations or sparkle memories. The design for this product is based around the fact that emotional and sensorial memory are often enough the last to be affected by types of Dementia.

Typical presentation for the game; examples of card sets in their case.

The Touch-and-Talk is a product designed to facilitate conversations with people diagnosed with a type of Dementia. The design of this game is centred around touch, and is meant to prompt emotional and sensory memory. It is a documented fact that, in the case of dementia those are the types of memory that fade last.

The rules are simple:

Natural textures are known to have the ability to prompt responses from people diagnosed with dementia.

Various examples of textures inspired by natural elements and household items.

Many thanks to Six Degrees Social Enterprise, and their emPoWereD Conversations initiative, who prompted this project.

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