Proposal of reminiscence therapy system using spoken dialog to suppress dementia

The number of dementia patients has increased in recent years. The burden on caregivers has also increased. Nevertheless, no established treatment for dementia exists. Controlling dementia progression is an important goal of dementia treatment. The reminiscence method is one means of suppressing dementia progression. In the reminiscence method, a caregiver talks with a dementia patient. However, an important difficulty is the necessity of listening to repeated dialog many times, which greatly increases the burden on caregivers. Therefore, for this research, we propose a system to support reminiscence using MMDAgent: a spoken dialog system.