Viterbo – The project “ starts the care of the art ” For Alzheimer's patients

Is called The treatment of the art l ’ initiative which sees together the Municipality of Viterbo and the Cultural Association of Care and Culture for a project dedicated to the elderly suffering from Alzheimer's dementia residing in RSA. At the center of this project the Luigi Rossi Danielli Civic Museum. In recent days, the Councilor for Culture Antonio Delli Iaconi intervened at one of the meetings, following closely the initiative.

“The project that was set up – has explained – It is aimed at elderly with dementia and Alzheimer. The group of participants is made up of twelve elderly people, divided into small groups of three or four, in several days. Next to them the educators of the Association of Cura e Cultura Association. The work that is carrying on President Barbara Chiappa together with Camilla Marra and Alessia Mariotti is really precious. The result is evident and above all positive.

The patients were able to know the works of art hosted and have information. The work developed through an "art therapy" laboratory that allowed participants to express their emotions in an artistic way ".

"Previously – he added Barbara Chiappa – Before the Museum experience, the patients of the RSA Viterbo Domus benefited from a series of individual and group music therapy meetings, another experience that has favored the maintenance and growth of social, emotional and cognitive skills ".

The "Care of Art" project has proposed several therapeutic strategies to try to clinically influence the course of the disease, applying paths of "music therapy" and "art therapy". The program he made from Caposcuola was born in New York (“Meet Me At Moma) and saw the collaboration of 100 museums in the world for the exchange of knowledge and the refinement of training methods. L ’ Association “ Care and Culture ” was born a year ago.

To date, it is made up of a group of social educators who carry on synergistic projects and actions of care, thus addressing more needy subjects, and not only, and of culture, through methodologies that have to do mainly with the limbs.