Conversation-Based Dementia Therapy: a Problem Only Generative AI Can Solve

There are currently no drugs that cure dementia, but there are scientifically proven conversation-based treatments that can slow the progression of the disease and even improve cognitive abilities. The problem is that these conversations need to take place with a trained conversation partner, preferably several times a week. In the U.S., eleven percent of everyone over the age of 65 has dementia, and a total of twenty-two percent have mild cognitive impairment. That makes it practically impossible to help them, as it would be astronomically expensive to train all the necessary conversation partners and pay for all those sessions.