CarePlay
Experiential learning through lifelike care scenarios, helping staff practice decisions, build practical skills and strengthen person-centered dementia care.
Dementia care is complex.
Building skills, retaining staff and growing the direct care workforce is aged care’s biggest challenge.
Skills gaps can leave staff underprepared and increase pressure across already stretched care teams.
More complex resident needs demand greater confidence, consistency and dementia-care capability across every shift.
Changing aged-care standards are raising expectations around workforce capability, person-centered care and quality.
Meet CarePlay
CarePlay is game-based experiential learning that puts staff into lifelike care scenarios, where they make decisions, test responses and build practical skills they can apply every day.
How it works
Staff work through lifelike dementia care scenarios, make active decisions and build practical skills they can take into everyday care.
Access CarePlay on compatible iOS or Android smartphones and tablets.
Staff make active decisions as lifelike dementia care situations unfold.
Complete scenario-based learning designed to build confidence and person-centered care skills, with a certificate and CEUs on completion.
Practice responses to real dementia care situations and build confidence across every shift.
Active decision-making helps staff build knowledge they can apply in everyday care.
Training that builds empathy, confidence and capability for complex dementia care.
Build practical dementia care skills across teams, roles and shifts.
Invest in staff development with training designed to build confidence and capability.
Support workforce capability with training informed by person-centered care and current aged-care expectations.
current CarePlay caregiver feedback
participants found CarePlay useful in the 2025 New Zealand pilot.
rated CarePlay very or extremely useful.
Pilot findings: Dementia Learning Centre / Alzheimer’s New Zealand, 2025.
CarePlay supports dementia care learning across residential and home care settings.
Use CarePlay for individual learning, onboarding or team discussion around realistic dementia-care scenarios.
Mobile scenarios help distributed home-care teams build dementia communication skills without needing everyone in the same room.
CarePlay combines scenario-based practice with person-centered dementia care principles, supported by a 2025 New Zealand workforce pilot.
Contact us and we’ll open an account for your organization and take you through the onboarding process. You’ll have a dedicated dashboard for enrolling your staff and tracking their progress.
Staff access CarePlay on compatible phones or tablets and work through interactive scenarios where choices change what happens next. The learning is designed for self-directed use and can also support group discussion.
CarePlay is a standalone app. It comes with a dedicated dashboard for registering staff and showing their progress, and the dashboard can be integrated into your existing system. Speak to us about our API documentation.
CarePlay supports workforce development through scenario-based dementia care learning, with a certificate and CEUs on completion. Organizations should map its use to their own training and compliance requirements.
Setup comes with live video support from a member of our team, stepping administrators through the game and answering any questions. They’ll also be introduced to their online dashboard, where they register their staff and can track progress. For learners, how-to instructions are in-game. Learners or administrators can email hello@mentia.me for help, with a reply within one business day.
Connect with us to discuss how CarePlay could support dementia care training across your organization.
