Date: October 26, 2018
“Songs, laughs, theatrical performances and a group of elderly people smiling and having fun. This is not a typical picture of everyday life in a nursing home. Arsi Tzouvara is one of the people who live in Moshato’s unit: We are waiting with great anxiety for the day the children of thāllo come. When for some reason they can’t manage it, we are worried“.
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By Notis Paraskevopoulos, MSc in Dementia
Date: October 26, 2018
We live in a time when people show symptoms of ageing in increasingly younger ages. This is combined with the growing number of degenerative brain diseases related to ageing, so we chose to design a program that can improve the social and mental condition of the elderly and of people living with dementia.
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An interview to Aria Sokratous
Date: October 26, 2018
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 people residing at a specific nursing home in Attica. In 2018, with a founding grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the implementation of the programme was extended to 16 nursing homes, four of which are outside the Attica region. Today, “Thāllo” is implemented in 25 nursing homes across Greece, supported by a network of trained volunteers, while 16 health professionals have also been trained with the purpose of integrating “Thāllo” into the residents’ daily life.
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Date: October 26, 2018
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
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