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Augmented reality glasses can aid dementia patients — and their caregivers

Gail P Sherman
Mar 30, 2026
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A UK company just won a £1 million prize for assistive glasses for people with dementia. The Longitude Prize was established as a “challenge prize” to encourage innovation to solve the world’s biggest problems. The name is a nod to the prize set up in the early 1700 for the solution to precisely determining the longitudinal posit…

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