In the quiet corridors of residential aged care, a widening gap has opened between the promise of digital connection and the lived reality of those whose memory and mobility have diminished. For people with dementia, the ordinary tools of modern belonging — a video call, a grandchild's message — can become unreachable, compounding an isolation that is already profound. A conversation between a tech podcaster and a nurse-turned-founder surfaces an older truth: that technology only serves humanity when it is designed around human frailty, not despite it.
Dementia-friendly tech offers lifeline against isolation in aged care
Older people with dementia experience compounded social isolation and loss of family connection due to digital exclusion and technology barriers in residential aged care.