How Clover Health Partnered With MindMate App to Help Seniors With Brain Games

Clover Health recently entered into a partnership with researchers at MindMate App, which combines brain games, healthy dieting, regular exercise, and social interaction, reports VentureBeat . MindMate encourages users to make multifaceted, holistic lifestyle changes to help ward off the effects of cognitive decline. Clover Health's Matt Waellert says the partnership allows his organization to monitor participating members' app activity and flag the Clover care team of any significant decline in cognitive performance. This can substantially improve healthcare providers and caregivers' ability to identify Alzheimer's, dementia, stroke, and other neurological disorders early. "If you look at the average health app, it's about 3.5-minute session times," Waellert notes. "They're not very engaging. MindMate is more like a 16-minute session length, much more like a mobile game." Waellert describes most games as "presentation layers on top of very traditional game mechanics. Those mechanics yield interesting data. The app feels very traditionally like a game, but because games stretch our minds, it does provide good cognitive data."