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George Mason University: Virtual Reality Adds Empathy to Dementia Care
June 11, 2025
FAIRFAX, Virginia, June 11 -- George Mason University issued the following research news:

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Virtual reality adds empathy to dementia care

By Katie Pearce

At a conference on aging two years ago, Li-Mei Chen slipped on a pair of virtual reality (VR) goggles and found herself inside the mind of a person with dementia.

The simulation cast her as an older adult in the grips of delusion: frozen in fear at the end of a hallway, watch . . .

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