John Muir
A NATURAL WORLD TO EXPLORE
Care Player opens access to a vast library of audiovisual experiences in Nature: environments, seasons and unspoiled landscapes gathered into a journey through the beauty of the natural world.
From the changing colours of seasonal blooms to forests crossed by light, from meadows to ocean shores, from high mountains to streams and waterfalls, all the way to Nature’s most essential elements.
A collection of images and sounds to explore freely, creating a different atmosphere each time and accompanying people, activities and moments of the day with the most suitable natural experience.
FROM NATURE TO EXPERIENCE
With Care Player, the care team can create personalised pathways, selecting landscapes, atmospheres and rhythms according to different contexts and people’s needs.
The psychologist can choose the natural environments most suitable for relaxation or reminiscence pathways.
The educator can lead artistic activities, storytelling workshops or cognitive stimulation sessions inspired by the selected videos.
The care professional can choose the most appropriate scenarios to accompany moments of care, waiting or interaction.
Nature thus becomes a flexible resource, capable of adapting to the different needs of the facility and the people within it.
THREE WAYS TO EXPERIENCE NATURE
CARE CHANNEL
Nature accompanies the daily life of the facility through a continuous programme that follows the rhythm of the seasons and the different moments of the day.
Created in collaboration with care staff, the programme accompanies the day with a harmonious succession of natural environments and atmospheres, bringing a discreet and constant presence into shared spaces and residents’ rooms, without requiring any intervention from staff.
READY-MADE PLAYLISTS
A collection of pre-organised pathways dedicated to themes, seasons and natural environments, selected to provide experiences that are immediately available. Each playlist is available in two viewing modes.
Short Sequence, with more frequent scene changes and a dynamic visual rhythm, designed to attract attention even in people experiencing significant cognitive decline.
Long Sequence, with a slower and more contemplative pace, ideal for encouraging relaxation, tranquillity and extended immersion in the same natural environment.
CATALOGUE
The entire audiovisual collection of Alamar Life is available through a simple and intuitive search system, combining multiple criteria to quickly find the desired experience.
Results are presented according to relevance and visual quality criteria, making selection easier even within a large archive.
CUSTOM PLAYLISTS
From any selection, new personalised playlists can be created, dedicated to workshops, therapeutic activities or the specific needs of care professionals.
Pathways can also be built around each resident’s life story, bringing together landscapes, seasons and natural environments connected to places from their past and to the experiences that have shaped them.
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE PLACES OF MEMORY
A woodland path, a meadow, a flower, the sound of a stream, the winter sea or the mountains of childhood can bring back memories that seemed long forgotten.
Nature can become a journey through the places of memory, bringing back images, emotions and experiences that belong to each person’s life story.
Playlists created from residents’ personal histories can awaken deep memories and bring back shared stories, places and experiences from their lives, creating new opportunities for dialogue and connection.
THE IMAGINED STORY®
Care Player allows natural environments to become the settings of a story created together.
Through the creation of playlists, the visual palette and instant access to thousands of Living Pictures, the group can choose in real time where to continue the journey, allowing the story to unfold freely.
A new way of using Nature to encourage imagination, connection and participation.
TestimoniaLS
Emilia sees the films with an impressive hunger for beauty, she is completely dazzled, there is nothing around her during the forty-minute session.
Emilia sees the films with an impressive hunger for beauty, she is completely dazzled, there is nothing around her during the forty-minute session.
We can’t bring them to the mountains, but we can bring the mountains to the care facility and make them feel at home again. This is the great power we have; we give them back their lives. … It is really a therapeutic tool; it is pure therapy for the soul and the heart.
Emotions and sensations of enchantment and beauty. The environment becomes serene and welcoming. The first result was a reduction in so-called ‘behaviour disorders’. On a physical level, too, some of them felt improvements.
Romeo had not spoken for two years; he no longer expressed any emotion. One day I projected the video of the sea and out of the blue we heard “Ah, the sea!”. He started telling us that he had asked his wife, kneeling on the beach, to get married. They then got married and went back there on their honeymoon. And he told us about his honeymoon.
Romeo had not spoken for two years; he no longer expressed any emotion. One day I projected the video of the sea and out of the blue we heard “Ah, the sea!”. He started telling us that he had asked his wife, kneeling on the beach, to get married. They then got married and went back there on their honeymoon. And he told us about his honeymoon.
Within three minutes, no more, A. slowly stops crying, his face relaxes, his mood changes completely from anguished to carefree. The videos really seem to be a great way for these people to bring back their fondest memories.
While watching therapeutic TV, the lady relaxes and manages to sleep. Even now, during the nights when she starts to manifest psychomotor agitation, the operators bring her in front of the therapeutic TV and most of the time this proves to be decisive.
In the serenity, in front of a forest, a flower, or other images, memories also began to surface. Or people began to sing, or remembered a nursery rhyme. The climate influenced the family members themselves. For example, a group of relatives had formed, who would have the residents sing in the evening after dinner, in front of the pictures. The tranquillity that allowed for conversation had been created.
There are often moments of sharing on reminiscences, tales of their experiences or memories, and with emotion and sighs many manage to let us understand the inner depth that these videos allow them to reach.
They have become so in tune with the experience that it now becomes almost spontaneous for them to listen and get into synergy with the activity in order to respond actively and enthusiastically.
Last but not least, the sense of beauty that these nature paintings have been able to create in the facility. The paintings that are projected are truly beautiful, are never the same, and also aesthetically create a pleasant environment to be in.
Last but not least, the sense of beauty that these nature paintings have been able to create in the facility. The paintings that are projected are truly beautiful, are never the same, and also aesthetically create a pleasant environment to be in.
They have become so in tune with the experience that it now becomes almost spontaneous for them to listen and get into synergy with the activity in order to respond actively and enthusiastically.
The methodology of storytelling combined with the stimulation of nature videos arouses, activates, conveys emotions. The conversational dimension is intensified in the group. The memory dimension is activated from the natural place, but only transits from there to the connected and personal sensations and EMOTIONS.
Rereading the stories that have been made makes us realise the richness of this proposal, which does not end in the time of the actual narration, but continues on the written page. We are collecting them with the idea of enhancing and highlighting, preserving them with care.
Also the caregivers have been facilitated in their work. The projections of the Relaxation Channel manage to give a rhythm to the work of caring, which is slow and delicate. This slowing down can be perceived in so many actions of daily life: one sees more, hears more, feels more… this is perhaps the biggest change that the programme has brought about.
Emilia sees the films with an impressive hunger for beauty, she is completely dazzled, there is nothing around her during the forty-minute session.
The interesting observation – and one that I think would be worth investigating with a more detailed study – is that the videos introduced an important cognitive and attentional stimulus after a moment of relaxation, while maintaining calm and tranquillity within the session.
We had two residents who no longer wanted to eat, they said ‘I don’t want to live anymore, so I won’t eat’. We put the fruit DVD rather than the garden DVD and eventually they started eating on their own, autonomously.
Also the caregivers have been facilitated in their work. The projections of the Relaxation Channel manage to give a rhythm to the work of caring, which is slow and delicate. This slowing down can be perceived in so many actions of daily life: one sees more, hears more, feels more… this is perhaps the biggest change that the programme has brought about.
The first element you must always reflect on is the environment in the sense of stimuli, colours, possibilities. I believe that our televisions must remain switched off and there must be a wisdom that proposes thoughtful images on the biography of these people. This video, which also brings us back to peace, has to be turned on. Two, three armchairs, the video goes and you have created an environmental pause so that the person can sit, rest for three or four minutes and restart. Today we can choose things that have a very low economic impact and a very high impact on the quality of life. Doing this is an improvement.
FROM EXPERIENCE TO RESEARCH
The observations collected over the years have led to collaborations with universities, experimental studies and research projects dedicated to the effects of audiovisual experiences of Nature.
Care Player transforms Nature into a flexible resource, capable of adapting to people’s needs and to the sensitivity of the professionals who care for them.
DISCOVER WHAT ALAMAR LIFE CAN DO FOR YOU.
Every environment, every person and every situation has unique needs.
Alamar Life creates audiovisual Nature experiences designed to support well-being across a wide range of settings: healthcare, hospitality, workplaces, education and everyday life.
Tell us about your project. We will be delighted to help you bring the presence of Nature into the spaces where you live, work or care for others.
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