July 18, 2016

Play video games to help Dementia research? Sign us up!

Dementia awareness week was held between 15th May- 22nd May and so the MI team thought it would be great to take this opportunity to spread awareness and help the research in to Dementia by hosting a game-a-thon here at PSS Seel street.

The game-a-thon was based on a new App Sea Hero Quest which allows players to navigate the high seas while spotting mysterious monsters. By understanding how people steer around their environment, scientists hopes to pin down how spatial navigation goes wrong in Alzheimer’s disease. Playing just 2 minutes will contribute to over 5 hours’ worth of research in the lab.

We were pleased that we were able to attract over 30 people of all ages attended including our very own Wendy from Shared Lives, who we had never seen so quiet when she was gaming! Everybody had a competitive but brilliant time which contributed to total of 651 hours of research in a lab which is absolutely fantastic!!

Not only did we have gaming fun but the participants were also provided with healthy fruit and vegetables juices made by Karol (in healthy body healthy mind). We also had some pizza in for the more adventurous gamers

Karol and Sinead from the MI team both agreed it was a fantastic event from start to finish with lots of people contributing to Dementia research but also learning more about Dementia with the MI Teams ‘top 100 things you didn’t know about Dementia’ scattered around the tables for people to read and find more information about the illness.

The overall winner from the Game-a-thon was Thomas Stanley from Finance but I think you’ll agree when I say the real winners are the researches as we have given them over 3 weeks of research.
If you wish to contribute towards the research you can download the Sea Hearo Quest from the app store.

Game-a thon to be continued so watch the space…