The problem Memento solves

🧠 Understanding Dementia

Dementia is an umbrella term for conditions causing brain degeneration and cognitive decline severe enough to impact daily life. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause. Some key facts:

• Over 50 million people worldwide live with dementia
• It leads to memory loss, thinking difficulties, behavioral changes
• Symptoms gradually worsen as the condition progresses if not taken proper care.

😔 The Problem of Getting Lost

Disorientation and wandering are among the most challenging symptoms for caregivers to manage. Studies show that over 60% of dementia patients wander or get lost at some point. Getting lost poses immediate safety risks like exposure or injuries. It causes immense stress on families trying to constantly supervise. Around-the-clock professional care is often unaffordable.

🚑How Memento Helps

So we came with the solution of Memento which allows the parents to get a control and supervision over the patient and gives the patient of freedom of going out alone on their own , where hiring a caretaker for 24 x 7 is extremely expensive . Finding a technological solution in india is hard for such specific case , with so many useful featues for helping out both the patient and their caretaker.

Key Features

For Caregivers (Parents)

• Ability to track their patient live on Google maps.
• Create Location routes for their patients where they want to go and schedule them.
• "Nova" , the AI chat support that helps you out where you can ask any question about dementia , get tips and tricks for caring.

For Patients

• Get the routes for their daily travel , where they are intended to go when they get lost , they get the route on google maps set with one tap .
• In case they feel uncomfortable or in danger/emergency they can call their caretaker/family with just one tap or send a SMS of a pre-defined template .
• "Nova" , the AI chat support that helps you out where you can ask any query.

Challenges we ran into

Challege maintaing the role access and connection of patient and parent using QR Code
We ran into the problem with OTP login/authentication where the dart package was not working correctly
we ran into errors while using the communication API's using Vonyage in Flutter.
We ran into the problem of importing custom svg icons, as natively there is not support for icons and 3rd party dart packages were not working .