A project developed by Edinburgh College that uses virtual reality (VR) to teach healthcare students how to care for and empathise with dementia patients has earned a Jisc-sponsored award for innovation.
One of several winners at the 2022 Higher Education (HE) Awards, run annually by The Herald, and announced at a ceremony in Glasgow last night, the project is described as ‘an inspiration’.
To develop the VR Dementia Experience, the college partnered with Cadpeople, a ‘visual communications agency’, to build a VR system that took student carers into an immersive world. It better prepares them for professional situations involving the condition than classroom work alone.
