Where would you like to cycle today?
I want to go back home
My name is Bengt Ivarrson
I am 60... No, I am 82 and a half years old
I live on Industrigatan in Tibro, Sweden.
We have three loving children
I am grateful for everything I have had from life
Bengt has become a bit bad at remembering
I think it is important to talk about memories
But our most precious memories...
...he's having issues with dates and things like that
Connecting everything...
Do you remember what they served at dinner for our wedding day?
I can't remember that
We were served turkey
Was it turkey?
I didn't think he had Alzheimer's
He can't accept it
It's as though it's happening to somebody else
I understood that his illness will get worse.
My name is Anne-Christine,
and I work as a project manager
and I'm also a biomechanical engineer.
We had this vision that we wanted to use technology
and develop new products and services
for elderly people.
The BikeAround system is a bike
where you can go wherever you want to go,
with Google Street View.
When you start to travel like you do in the BikeAround,
that triggers you to remember,
so you feel that you're there.
You have a moment where
you're not suffering from memory loss.
Mostly, they want to go back where they grew up.
Because that's also where they have most memory.
We don't know how many people
that are going to suffer from dementia in the future.
But we can find new ways to change people's lives.
I would always question things
I would always wonder, like, how light works.
Like, why the waves are crashing the way they do.
My eyes opened to, like, a new world.
And that's when it clicked.