With determination, I kept searching until I found a flicker of hope.
For me this was a eureka moment. Like so many others fighting against the clock with our loved ones facing dementia, I feared too much time had passed and that I might be too late. I called on some colleagues to help develop prototypes of gamma light lamps just like the ones from the MIT research. We immediately began using them at home. The flickering lamps had notable positive effects on my wife and her doctors asked me where they could get more of them. The benefits combined with their interest led me to create a company and producing gamma lights for families like mine, who just can’t wait.
Finding a way forward by leaning on science to balance our unstoppable tendencies of hope and fear is not a new approach. Science has always been the beating heart of industrialization, globalization and economic growth. Scientific research has brought us life-changing innovations like electricity and antibiotics. Yes, it’s science that gets the credit, but hope and fear are powerful motivators.
