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My Life's Journey: New app designed to help kiwis living with Alzheimer's and dementia

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Mon, 27 Feb 2023, 9:41am
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My Life's Journey: New app designed to help kiwis living with Alzheimer's and dementia

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 27 Feb 2023, 9:41am

More than 70,000 kiwis are currently living with dementia and this number expected to triple in the coming years.

After being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, Allister Robertson created an app to help others in the same boat.

My Life's Journey encourages users to record things from their lives with words, photos, and videos.

It then prompts discussions in a therapeutic format for recalling memory.

Allister told Mike Hosking that it helps him personally and that once you start, it’s never ending.

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