{"id":8529,"date":"2020-10-25T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=8529"},"modified":"2020-10-25T07:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T11:57:54","slug":"how-virtual-reality-can-transform-caregiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=8529","title":{"rendered":"How Virtual Reality Can Transform Caregiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>When Carrie Shaw was a freshman at the University of North Carolina, her mother, then 49, learned she had early-stage Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI was really scared of my mom\u2019s diagnosis,\u201d said Ms. Shaw, founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based <\/span>Embodied Labs<\/a>, an immersive educational technology company that uses virtual reality software to train health care professionals who work with older adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI had that avoidance reaction to let the family figure it out without me,\u201d she said. \u201cSo after I graduated, I joined the Peace Corps for a two-year stint in the Dominican Republic. I wanted to help and serve, but didn\u2019t know how to in my own family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When she was 24, though, she faced it. Ms. Shaw, who has an undergraduate degree in public health, moved back to her family home in Winston-Salem, N.C., to be a full-time caregiver. \u201cAt that point, my mom had fairly advanced dementia, but it was so meaningful to be with her, and we built a special relationship,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n