Embodied Labs

Embodied Labs® is revolutionizing training in healthcare and social services by enabling caregivers to learn what it’s like to have a disease or impairment through first-person virtual experiences. Fostering actionable empathy with interactive learning journeys, our platform empowers care providers to deliver more compassionate, human-centered care that improves outcomes, and enhances quality of life.

Over 100+ organizations across the aging care continuum – including government entities, academic institutions, senior services organizations, and Fortune 100 retail health companies – have adopted the Embodied Labs’ platform to up-skill their own staff, teach the next generation of healthcare workers, and support the informal family and friend caregivers they serve in their communities. Developed with topic experts, our first-person experiences are powerful and memorable. They create a perceived lived experience that allows learners to remember rather than imagine, with branching narratives that enable better decision-making through choices.

Founded in 2016, the Embodied Labs® experience library includes shared immersive experiences such as living through progressing Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, and embodying the first-person perspectives of other common caregiving situations such as PTSD, trauma-informed care, social isolation, aging in the LGBTQ+ community, and health assessments in complex home and community-based settings.

Our experiences:

• Provide a first-person perspective of older adults and caregivers as they navigate the aging process.
• Are designed with world renowned subject matter experts and immersive content designers to serve the needs of organizations that work with caregivers and older adults.
• Return greater benefits in training outcomes, learner satisfaction and engagement compared traditional, non-immersive methods.