NURTURE BY LIVED EXPERIENCES

Inside Nurture

A first-person VR training system that helps clinicians, students, and caregivers experience dementia from the patient’s perspective — then translates that experience into measurable behavior change.

Designed for nursing, medical, clinical workforce, and caregiver education.

THE SHIFT

Nurture doesn’t teach about dementia. It teaches what dementia feels like.

Traditional Education

Focuses on symptoms, pathology, and clinical management. Caregivers are left to interpret challenging behaviors as intentional resistance, driving frustration and burnout.

The Nurture Shift

Immerses learners in the lived experience of sensory distortion and cognitive friction. Caregivers learn to interpret behavior as an unmet need, transforming frustration into empathy.

THE VR EXPERIENCE

Step inside. See what they see. Feel what they feel.

Delivered via Meta Quest with controller-free hand tracking, each scenario places learners in realistic household environments during everyday tasks — where they encounter the cognitive and sensory disruptions that define dementia.

Simulation Preview

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First-Person Immersion

Experience memory gaps, sensory overload, delayed processing, and emotional stress through the patient’s eyes.

Realistic Scenarios

Household environments with everyday tasks — navigating a kitchen, social interactions, and routine activities that become cognitively challenging.

Safe & Controlled

Intentionally uncomfortable but medically responsible. Built-in screening protocols and safety stop rules included.

How It Works

Three Steps from Experience to Action

Step 1

Enter the Scenario

Realistic VR scenes that simulate common dementia-related challenges.

Step 2

Feel the Change in Perception

See and hear from a first-person perspective to understand the experience.

Step 3

Turn Insight into Action

A structured debrief that converts what you felt into practical care strategies.

training IMPACT

Designed for Real-World Care

Nurture is structured to support communication, interpretation, and reflection in real clinical and caregiver environments.

Clearer Response to Agitation

The experience helps learners pause, interpret behavior as communication, and respond with greater intention.

Interpreting Behavior as Unmet Need

Scenarios are designed to reframe confusion, repetition, and resistance as signals rather than problems.

Structured Reflection, Not Just Immersion

The guided debrief connects emotional experience to practical communication strategies.

Prepared for Real Conversations

Learners leave with language shifts and care approaches they can apply immediately in training or practice.

DEPLOYMENT

Everything you need to run Nurture

A complete institutional package for facilitator-led sessions and repeat cohorts. Designed to run with 1–2 headsets and a trained facilitator.

Institutional License Includes

  • 12-month institutional software license
  • Facilitator debrief guide (structured)
  • Onboarding + deployment walkthrough
  • Participant information & consent templates
  • Implementation checklist + room setup guidance
  • Survey instruments (copy-paste ready)
  • Software updates during license term
  • Email support

Minimum Setup

  • 1–2 Meta Quest headsets
  • 6×6 ft safe open space
  • Disposable face covers or cleanable interface
  • One trained facilitator
  • Basic screening protocol (included)

RESEARCH-READY

Nurture supports single-group pre/post, waitlist control, cross-over study, and embedded curriculum evaluation designs. IRB-friendly and QI-friendly.

TRUSTED & BACKED BY RESEARCH

Built with evidence. Designed for real-world care.

Nurture is grounded in dementia care principles and structured reflection methods used in healthcare education. It’s built to help learners interpret behavior as communication and respond with confidence.

  • Evidence-informed dementia behavior models
  • Structured facilitator debrief framework
  • Designed for classroom and clinical training
  • Evaluation-ready for programs and studies

READY TO SEE IT IN ACTION?

Bring Nurture to your program.

We’ll set up a quick demo and walk through the experience, what’s included, and what implementation looks like for your workflow.