Research
The research behind Smriti
What we have published, who checks our work, and which numbers we will not repeat until somebody outside this company can check them too.
Our published work
Our research looks at how a memory questionnaire designed for one culture behaves when it is used with another. The short version: a question about a season, a food or a public figure is not the same question in Delhi as it is in Boston, and a family can be told their parent has declined further than they have because of it.
The paper is listed below with the journal, the issue and the page numbers, so you can look it up yourself.
Who reviews what we write
A practising neurologist reads the research the product rests on. His name, his hospital and his qualification are listed below and all three can be checked against the hospital’s own pages.
He does not read individual messages. Nobody outside your household does. What he reviews is the thinking behind how the messages are shaped.
What we do not claim
Smriti is a companionship service. It is not a medicine, it is not a device, and it has not been through any regulator. It does not tell you how your parent is doing and it will never tell you what to do about it.
Two figures appear in press coverage about us that we are not repeating on this page: a result from a study of more than four hundred people, and a patent application. Both may well be exactly as reported. Neither has a public record we can point you at today, and a page about memory loss is not the place to ask you to take our word for it. When there is a registry entry or an application number, it will be here with a link.
Where we got the rest of it
The reading below is other people’s work, not ours. It is here because a family that has just had bad news deserves somewhere better than a company website to go next.
References
The paper
- ADAS-Cog performance in urban Indian Alzheimer’s patients: Implications for culturally appropriate assessment. Gupta & Gupta, Bioinformation 22(8): 4617-4621 (2026).
Our own work on how a widely used memory questionnaire performs in urban India.
Who reviews the work
- Dr. Praveen Gupta
Chairman, Neurology, Marengo Asia Hospitals, Gurugram. DM Neurology, AIIMS New Delhi.
Press
- डिमेंशिया मरीजों से अब अपनों की आवाज में बात करेगी AI
Dainik Jagran reported on the work in Hindi. - Smriti: The Voice That Stays When Memory Fades
ETHealthworld carried a sponsored profile of Smriti. It is marked as non-editorial.
Further reading, by other people
- Cultural adaptation of Alzheimer’s disease assessment scale-cognitive subscale for use in India and validation of the Tamil version for South Indian population.
The cultural adaptation of the same questionnaire for use in India. - Hindi Version of Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III: Distinguishing Cognitive Impairment Among Older Indians at the Lower Cut-Offs.
A Hindi memory questionnaire validated for older adults in India. - Alzheimer’s and Dementia Support, India
The Alzheimer’s Association’s own pages for families in India.
Questions?
Write to admin@smriti.care. A founder personally replies.