A Toxteth teen said it was "wonderful" to see his grandad captivated by a free dementia app the teen helped create.
The retired milkman was "clicking, clicking, clicking" his way through his grandson Abdul Wase's iPad, not wanting to get off, despite not using any gadgets or Apple devices. Abdul, 18, said: "He was just smiling, because he just remembered a lot of things. There's a cow in the app, and when he saw that, he remembered a cow they had in the village."
Part of National Museums Liverpool's (NML) "award-winning dementia awareness programme", House of Memories, the Memories of Yemen app is "a digital first for the UK", according to NML. Seeing his nan's memory and movement decline with dementia inspired Abdul to help create the bilingual app, which uses "artefacts, stories, traditions and images collated by others within the community" to help people from the Yemeni community who are living with the degenerative condition to connect with their heritage and trigger memories.
