MentiaCompanion

Accessing MentiaCompanion

We’re keen to get you started! First step, register. Contact Mentia Health to open a company account, create profiles, and onboard care teams. Available to families through their care support services, e.g. assisted living or home care. See FAQs for more information.

MentiaCompanion: Enhancing Lives, Empowering Caregivers

MentiaCompanion is more than an app — it’s a compassionate partner to care, both for individuals with cognitive impairment and their caregivers, helping to sustain long-term, high-quality care and easing the load. The companions —driven by a sophisticated AI — converse, communicate, and build connections inside a customizable virtual home, guiding the player through interactive activities in familiar surroundings.

Who is MentiaCompanion for?

Science-driven and clinically tested, MentiaCompanion engages individuals with brain changes linked to declining cognition. Its universal design supports a wide range of abilities and communication styles, including non-verbal. Caregivers need not be present, though many choose to observe, likening MentiaCompanion to “a third person in the room” who brings social and emotional support without adding to their workload.

What Makes MentiaCompanion Unique?

- Technology: Powered by a proprietary AI conversational model, MentiaCompanion blends advanced AI with deep dementia care knowledge to deliver natural, personalized interactions.
- Science: developed by PhD subject-matter-experts and clinically tested with NIH-funded research rigor.
- Codesign: Memory care residents participated in the design to ensure our companions recognize speech and emotion, understand context, and respond with respect, warmth, and empathy.
- Person-centered: Conversations draw on the player’s biographical data to support reminiscence, connection, and cognitive stimulation.
- A virtual home: A safe and calm environment for activities of daily living, guided by the companion.

The Virtual Home brings meaningful engagement:

Aside from conversation, the companions share their life in a virtual home filled with music, videos, photos, artwork, and animals — stimuli that evoke familiarity, trigger memory, and promote positive mood. Household objects act as scaffolds for memories. Players move between rooms and enjoy a responsive garden that sparks curiosity and engagement. Whether playing a song, commenting on art, or petting a cat, every interaction strengthens selfhood and identity.

Global and Multilingual

A global release, available in multiple languages—including English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Korean, Arabic, Tagalog (and more to come) — MentiaCompanion ensures culturally sensitive care and players converse in their preferred language.

Why Caregivers Love MentiaCompanion

Caregivers appreciate the free time, even though many choose to stay during sessions, and absorb new facets of their person — interests, memories, and moods — that otherwise may remain hidden. Each session generates summaries and transcripts in English, regardless of the player’s language, overcoming cultural barriers, tailoring support, and preparing valuable insights for reports and accreditation.