Have you ever witnessed senile decay of that sort?
I mean, said family member won't be helped by something / anything like Google or a notes app on a smartphone.
She fails the three-word senility test, wherein you ask her to remember three simple words, distract her momentarily, and they're gone. Every. Single. Time. In addition, she thinks her dead husband is overseas checking out a property, doesn't recognise her grand-children, has no idea what year it is, and can't hold down a conversation.
Outsourcing of memorisation is only helpful if you've sufficient marbles left to use the tools. This sort of problem needs a hardware fix - medical, cybernetic, you name it.
I don't want to dismiss your comment. The three-word senility test is pretty hard to get over. That said, I was very impressed by the work on SenseCam from Microsoft Research. One of their original papers showed much promise in a person with a specific memory impairment. I forget the details :-p Here is the link:
yes, this is a great point. raises the issue about experience: 10 years experience? or 1 yr experience repeated 10 times. Not the same thing at all. Do you really want to extend the latter ad-infinitim as 1 yr becomes->1 day->1hour repeated N times etc
I mean, said family member won't be helped by something / anything like Google or a notes app on a smartphone.
She fails the three-word senility test, wherein you ask her to remember three simple words, distract her momentarily, and they're gone. Every. Single. Time. In addition, she thinks her dead husband is overseas checking out a property, doesn't recognise her grand-children, has no idea what year it is, and can't hold down a conversation.
Outsourcing of memorisation is only helpful if you've sufficient marbles left to use the tools. This sort of problem needs a hardware fix - medical, cybernetic, you name it.