Bologna, Oct. 9, 2015
2nd FEEL-MIND DAY
Letizia Espanoli, expert trainer and organizer of Alzheimer’s cores and creator of the Feel-Mind Project, talks about Experience Nature videos.
“The first element on which it is essential that you always reflect is the ENVIRONMENT.
But it is not understood as the super-cool core built by the architect, or the poor one. It is understood as stimuli, above all: colours, possibilities. If your 20 elderly people with dementia are all together in the lounge, it is obvious that you will have behavioural disturbances. Because all 20 of them there, maybe without any activity, this stimulates. If you have decided that the biggest babysitter of old people even in old people’s homes is the TV always on. The TV on is a huge behavioural disorder trigger.
Because today here is Cristina Fino and there are Alamar videos. Of course, for all the esteem and sympathy I may have for Cristina. But because I believe in this, I believe that our televisions should remain off and there should be a wisdom that proposes images, possibilities thought about the biography and history of these people. Let’s let go of this video, which also brings us back to peace. Two, three armchairs, the television, the video going, and you’ve created an environmental pause that makes it possible for the person who has continuous wandering to sit down, rest three or four minutes and go again. It’s as simple as that!
Today we can choose things that have a very low economic impact and have a very high impact on quality of life. This is veering .”
