Daysome

Daysome shows one person, on one iPad, what day it is, what is happening now, what is coming next, and what is for tea. That is the whole thing. There is nothing to tap. The display is for a family member in the early stages of dementia: happy, settled, living at home, and starting to lose track of when to eat, when to drink, and when her favourite programme is on. She reaches for her iPad all day long, so that is where the answer lives. WHAT IS ON THE SCREEN FOR THE FAMILY MEMBER The day and the part of the day in large, plain words. The time, nearly as large. What is happening now, and what is coming next, in two slots that never move. The menu for each meal. Weekly visitors — the cleaner, the shopping delivery — on the days they actually come. And an optional note from the family, which takes itself down when it stops being true. Optionally, Daysome makes a soft chime when something…