This piece of writing argues that the experience of the person with dementia should frame the perspective brought to build the design and the philosophy of care. In essence, ‘looking out from the inside'. Shifting the emphasis from condition to experience encourages the paradigm shift needed to create environments that allow the person with dementia to be an active participant in everyday life rather than a passive recipient of care. How consideration of the living experiences provides a way to focus thinking for design of the built in potential environment to practically support the person with dementia, thereby addressing the wider spectrum of issues in creating a dementia friendly physical, social and technological environment from the perspective of the person with dementia is what is highlighted here. The assistive technology helped the person and the carer to maintain a quality life and reduce the challenges of caring. This paper also addresses the impact of technology in dementia care in a wider range as well as the negative influence regarding man and machine.