Dementia/Digital Diary/Clock

Fashmel

About this app

Dementia Diary/Clock provides a highly configurable clock display with events that are remotely configurable using any shared calendar configured onto the phone/tablet.
A new feature allows the screen to be fully configured by the user.

"Long press" in the top left corner of the screen to open up a wealth of options.
The application uses the devices full screen. To access the navigation bar just swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
Full details of all options are available on the website, fashmel.com

Inspired by my experiences caring for my mother and father in law, both of whom have suffered from dementia / alzheimers, the Dementia Diary was written to help improve both their lives and the lives of their carers.

Photos installed on the device can be displayed or played and associated with calendar events. (Google Drive is not now available)

Dementia Diary has minimal language support (Time/Date) for all android supported languages, and full translations for the following;
English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Hebrew*, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak and Swedish.

Please let me know if you have any ideas for more options that will help you.

A Note of Warning: This application is designed to be "always on". Please ensure the device is mains powered as it will drain the battery life.

Ratings and reviews

Excellent free app with tons of customization. I set up on an e-ink tablet. Highly recommend! Example I have date at very top right. Then I have a blue background for all day events in a bar above the Day in green in large font. Under that I have time in even larger font. Then I have 3 rows of timed events that stay until they pass. For active event the background turn red in a banner. Customized to use the notification timing instead of event timing for more heads up.

Works well once configured. Some aspects of configuration are not so intuitive but are still functional. It would be nice to have more placement options for the on-screen data but as it is it works. Concept is great and fills a need that is neglected by society. Thank you for the effort and consideration for the elderly and their carers.

I have an 8" Tablet that I no longer use and instead of purchasing a 'dementia clock' for my mother, I can use this, which has an identical display. The calendar sync makes it superior to those clocks - I purchased a 'data reward' SIM from Three, which automatically adds 200mb free each month, to sync with Google Calendar. Also, the Tablet can't be updated beyond 4.2, yet the app supports it. Top marks to the developer.

What's new

Updated app to latest libraries
Configuration of screen is now in the menus
removed ability to select files from Google Play
up to three all day events are concatenated onto the allday banner.
No event text removed if there is an all day event
some bug fixes