Comforting Altzheimer’s disease with… violets and hyacinths Two actors “perform” at elderly nursing homes, where, by awakening the senses, they manage to obtain stories which the participants retract from the depths of their minds. By EVLAMPIA REVI Photographs by SPYROS BAKALIS It is just nine thirty in the morning and outside an elderly nursing home […]
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A psychosocial intervention without language constraints, about dementia in the third age An interview to Aria Sokratous The “Thāllo” programme is an innovative, non-pharmacological psychosocial intervention addressed to elderly people and to people living with dementia; it has been developed by Notis Paraskevopoulos and Konstantina Maltezou, through their systematic contact with a group of elderly
With the virtual reality headset elderly people can even see cultural monuments (photo by Alexia Tsagari). Virtual “journeys” for older kids Elderly entertainment through the “Thāllo” program by Sakis Ioannidis Arsinoi pulled me by the hand to lead me towards the centre of the small room. The tables were still messy after the morning activities
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