Welcome to Guide
Guide helps people with cognitive impairment perform daily activities by providing contextually helpful prompts.
People with cognitive impairments (e.g., due to dementia or brain injury) often require help to perform activities of daily living, such as dressing, laundry and food preparation.
In many cases people with cognitive impairment can physically perform these activities, but they remain unable due to problems with memory, attention, and problem solving.
Guide compensates for these cognitive deficits. The program guides users through daily activities with verbal prompts. Users can respond verbally, and the system will help users solve task related problems.
Motivation and Aims
All across the world humans provide cognitive support for one another. We remind each other, provide advice, help each other solve problems and keep each other 'on task'.
When a loved one has a cognitive impairment, the family and friends step in to provide cognitive support. The problem is that this extra support can be seen as nagging, thus undermining the basis of the relationship.
Our aim is to simulate the best verbal support that caregivers provide, so that caregivers can avoid 'nagging' and focus on the care relationship.
Get started with Guide
The best way to understand Guide is to use it. Creating an account is quick and easy, simply go to the registration page and sign up.
If you already have an account, use the Login link at the top of the page, or just login here.
Once you have registered, you can start playing with existing activities and even creating your own activities. You can also download the app for your Android device. All new users get access to a small number of our Gold Standard activities so that you can start using Guide straight away.