Smart glasses let dementia patients recognise family

 HI-TECH glasses which tell wearers what or who is in front of them are among inventions that may improve dementia patients' lives, experts say

-  Sarah O'Grady

Other tech innovations include software that helps fill in the gaps broken speech and a navigation app inspired by The Wizard of Oz.

The iMAGIC smart-glasses, developed at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UEA, can interact with other devices. As well as their "extremely useful" tool to let users know what they are looking at, they can make calls, act as a tracker, issue reminders and monitor vital signs, sleep or even the risk of a fall, scientists say.