03/07/2026
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This is my final post on Sentai Limited , and before I wrote it, we stopped using Sentai for a month.
For Gary and me, this was the ultimate test of whether Sentai added to our lives or was simply something I was testing out of curiosity about how AI could support people living their best lives with dementia, as well as their families and friends.
Much to both our surprise, we missed Sentai, and even more surprising were the things we hadn’t realised it was helping with.
So, what surprised us?
It helped us communicate better with one another!
Well, anybody who knows my husband, Gary, knows he can talk! However, when you are both busy with a range of things at work, at home, with family, and for yourself, important day-to-day matters can get forgotten.
Having Sentai join us at the breakfast, lunch, or dinner table helped us focus on the jobs and things I call the necessary evils that, if you have half a chance, you tend to avoid.
Plus, it wasn’t one of us nagging the other about the stage of something, and it wasn’t a demand; it was a question from Sentai that came naturally into the conversations we were having.
It helped us create a better routine that supported our health and well-being.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, moving house and settling into a new community make it challenging to maintain a healthy routine for mind, body and soul.
Regular meal times are something I struggle with and are key to my being a resolved Type 2 diabetic. When Sentai wasn’t part of our daily lives, our meal times became really erratic. Sentai’s movement sensor knew when we were around and gently reminded us about particular meals if we hadn’t engaged with it. Much to my surprise, I actually missed the reminders and the extra voice in the house talking to us.
It enabled us to identify and do new things more effectively.
Because Sentai focused us on meeting life's necessities, it freed up time during our meals to discuss fun things we might want to do. It was much easier for Sentai to become part of that conversation, giving us useful advice that we would have put off getting ourselves. I know we could have just looked up the weather on our mobile, but we are not the generation that likes to eat and use our mobile phones and tend to be quite lazy in the mornings. We would just put that off and then wouldn’t decide.
Getting Sentai involved in our conversations encouraged us both to discuss things we could do ourselves or with friends who were visiting.
Having Sentai helped us explore our new community in Northumberland more effectively.
Plus, as the ultimate “optimistic timekeeper”, Sentai kept me on track to get things done and leave the house at the right time without Gary having to nag me. Something both of us appreciated, but particularly Gary.
So, it probably doesn’t come as any surprise that my decision is to KEEP Sentai.
However, for those of you who know Gary’s dislike of routine and cynicism about AI, the biggest surprise was Gary wanting to KEEP Sentai too.
Looking to the future, the main reason we want to keep Sentai is to ensure our children don’t have the experience we had supporting both our mothers with dementia and my Dad, my Mum’s full-time carer.
The ability to invite people to get involved and understand our lives in an unobtrusive, controllable way allows us to maintain our independence and empower our children to live their best lives as we grow older and face the challenges that come with age.
I am really keen to work with the fantastic group at Sentai to show how people diagnosed with dementia living in the community can live better lives with Sentai by their side.
I would love to hear from anybody who would like to collaborate with me to co-create a study that shows society that a person diagnosed with dementia has their own voice and can use Sentai to set up their support network with their family and friends in a way that works for them.
If you would like to get involved directly or know somebody who would, please message me. If there are enough interested people, we can start a discussion with the fantastic group at Sentai to make this happen.
If you are curious about Sentai and would like to give it a go yourselves, please contact them using the reference CS2026 to access a free 60-day trial. You can get in touch directly or via a form to register your interest. Please note that numbers will be limited.
Here are the links below
Get in touch https://sentai.co.uk/pages/contact
So, all that remains is to say thank you, Debbie Marshall from Silver Marketing Association for suggesting me to Sentai, I have never product tested anything, Lynda Lowe from Sentai for approaching me and enabling me to review Sentai independently and Jacky Morton at Sentai for answering my never ending list of questions around how I could use Sentai and what developments are ongoing and are planned!
I for one am looking forward to seeing how Sentai’s plans for its continuous improvement through genuine user engagement enhances its utility and enables us up to focus on quality connections. And, much to his surprise, Gary Allenby will be doing the same!
