Nigerian-Irish teens Rachel, Margaret and Joy designed and coded Memory Haven during CoVid-19 lockdown. It’s an app to help people in Ireland living with dementia with music therapy and other features.
According to the 2020 Health Service Executive, there are 55,000 people in Ireland living with dementia.
The app has 6 main features including a health check, a music playlist, reminder alerts and reach out features.
The music playlist feature combines facial recognition technology to detect the mood of the user and plays music accordingly.
Memory Haven has already won prestigious technology competition, Technovation, beating 1,500 entries from 62 countries.