Senior Citizen Centers
Alzheimer/Dementia and Arthritis Patients
Dementia patients are limited to many things. They are always forgetting things, getting distracted, and in some bad cases need someone by their side 24/7. Because of patients like this, it's getting hard for some nurses to constantly look out for them and keep them mentally engaged. As for patients who have Arthritis, constantly having them use their joint muscles helps loosen their joints and be less painful for their joints.
Design, model and test 3D puzzles game that will have them engaged constantly without the constant supervision of nurses. This will help patients challenge themselves in the brain, but also have creativeness since they can make a wide variety of things with 3D objects, if they can't follow the rules. For Arthritis patients, it helps them use their joint muscles since they're constantly using their fingers and joints to solve the 3D puzzle game.
Initial sketches
CAD designs
3D Printed Prototypes
Engineering Notebook
Portfolio
1 week of planning time
1 week of designing one object
Weight: as light as possible
Color: on the brighter side
Easy to assemble, yet challenging
Oishi Ghosh
Grade: 12
School: Cardinal Gibbons High School
Email: ghosho20494@student.cghsnc.org
Twitter: @oishi_ghosh