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  • A truck touring the UK can give you a taste of dementia

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    01.15.2016

    They say that to truly understand other people, you need to put yourself in their shoes. The Mobile Virtual Dementia Tour does just that in order to give people the chance to know what it feels like to suffer from the condition. Training2Care, the UK-based care training provider that organized the tour, made the inside of a truck look like a person's home. Before you go in, you have to wear a pair of dark glasses that blurs everything and simulates macular degeneration, as well as headphones that reproduces what dementia patients hear: chaotic sounds and noise.