Purple Dyad is a technology innovation collaboratory focused on interventions for people living with dementia & care partners. Interventions are geared toward enriching relationships, decreasing care-giver burden, and building on the inherent strengths of people living with dementia.
We bridge the gap between people living-in-place with dementia, care partners, and innovators interested in creating artificial intelligence and technology-based solutions.
Our Approach
Our approach is to translate qualitative research studies tailored for people living with dementia and their care partner to prototype and research packages for academicians, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and innovators. In addition, we offer learning labs in strategy, start-up business, new product development and tech prototyping for those who want to make a difference in the dementia area.
Just Getting Started!
We are in the process of forming a Colorado benefit corporation, a triple bottom line company with diverse stakeholders who want to make a difference and destigmatize dementia through positive interventions.
Stakeholders
Purple Dyad is seeking stakeholders to be part of this collaboratory initiative, including people living with dementia, care partners, social scientists specializing in dementia research, technology architects and engineers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs as well as organizations interested in technology innovation.
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Founders
Dr. Lisa Fournier was a care partner to her Mom for 8 years. After her Mom died in 2017 from Alzheimer’s Disease, Lisa knew she had to give back because she realized that what she had been told by the healthcare profession was not what she had experienced. She desires to support others as they traverse the stressful space of care partnering. Read More
Ty Seddon developed his passion for science by listening to stories from his grandfather, a medical doctor with a lifelong interest in the history of scientific discovery. Those stories ended when his grandfather died of Alzheimer’s Disease when Ty was a teenager. Ty’s passion for science lived on. Decades later, a life-changing car accident and a National Academy of Medicine project led Ty to co-found Purple Dyad. Read More