Alumnus launches award winning app to help families caring for someone with Alzheimer's
The Javoo app provides an exclusive private social network for family members to help make their lives easier. Members of the family can upload memories of their loved one from the past and present, which can then be used to reminisce when in conversation with them. They can keep all family members informed of their loved one's progress using the diary feature, wherever they live in the world. They can also be kept up to date with the latest news and research about Alzheimer's using the news function.
Commenting on the Javoo app, Scott said: “I came up with the idea after my grandad passed away from Alzheimer's over 3 years ago.
“To kick-start the idea I used students within the School of Computer Science to develop the app. I also drew on the experience and knowledge of members of the Business School’s Ingenuity Lab.”
Scott won the University’s 2015 Student Enterprise Award for the Javoo app and was a top ten finalist in the Postgraduate Ingenuity prize which also provided funding to further develop the app. Scott and the Javoo team will also be working with 'Mindtech' part of the University of Nottingham’s pioneering Institute of Mental Health.
Last year the main focus of the University of Nottingham’s charity fund raising campaign was dementia research and it continues to support this. Last month, a cheque totalling almost £360,000 was presented to Professor Peter Morris CBE, the Head of the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at The University of Nottingham from the annual Life Cycle event that took place during the summer months.
Life Cycle 5 exceeded its £350,000 target to apply the University’s world-leading expertise in MRI scanning to the study of dementia and other degenerative conditions of the brain.
Presenting the cheque, The University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Greenaway said: “One in three of us have a relative or close friend who is a dementia patient and that is a massive incidence. Presently, dementia attracts about 8 per cent of the funding that goes to cancer research, so there is a big funding gap there.
“This funding will allow us to use our Nobel Prize-winning MRI research to underpin ways of understanding better how dementia affects the brain. “
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Posted on Monday 8th February 2016