Description
The project starts with the following programme 2022:
- MENTAL TRAINING COURSE: 6 meetings held by a specialised psychologist and
specialised psychotherapist, in which, through exercises, brain activity is stimulated in its
its cognitive aspects, in order to reduce ageing.
- NORDIC WALKING COURSE is a type of walking that allows you to
train around 600 muscles, i.e. almost 90% of our body. 5 meetings aimed at
caregivers to regain well-being, while maintaining the physical fitness often jeopardised
by the mobilisation of their family member.
- INFORMATIVE AND RELIEF STEPS: The first Thursday of each month,
a time to stimulate physical wellbeing, through movement and open air, in which
chats with experts in the field (social workers, specialist nurses
psychologists, etc.) in an informal manner;
- LISTENING ROOM: an informal, non-therapeutic space run by a professional counsellor and aimed at caregivers who are in need of care.
professional counsellor and aimed at carers who wish to dedicate a space for themselves.
- TRAINING EVENINGS: "Learning to communicate with dementia" and "Emotional support
caregivers" will be conducted by a functional psychologist and psychotherapist and will have the
and functional psychotherapist and are aimed at preventing and helping participants to develop effective adaptation strategies.
adaptation; through the stimulation of the expression of feelings and experiences
submerged and with practical functional techniques, with a psycho-body approach, aimed at the
immediate relief from symptoms. The theme of Nutritional Well-being: will be dealt with by a
nutrition expert to share doubts and problems and to find solutions
simple solutions. We will talk about proper and healthy nutrition but also about the pleasure of food, we will
the need to modify food according to the needs of each age of life, but also according to
We will talk about the importance of appreciating and sharing the moment of eating.
- ANIMATED READINGS OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS at libraries and city parks,
an itinerant event of animated readings of illustrated books on dementia topics, for age groups
age groups from 3 to 12 years, promoting peer education, through reading from pre-adolescents
to younger children.
- BOOK PRESENTATION: "My mother is a good girl" by Leonardo
Franchini published 2021. A novel that tells in a simple and serene way, how
through a painful experience one can rediscover the value of affection and family relationships.
family relationships. The journey of an Alzheimer's patient in the thoughts of those who are victims and those who
have to take care of them.
