There is a link between a person’s lifestyle and the development of dementia. GGD Flevoland will pay extra attention to this in the coming period within the campaign ‘We are the medicine ourselves’. The purport: by eating healthy, exercising enough and stimulating the brain, the risk of dementia decreases. This reports Omroep Flevoland.
Project leader Froukje Zeijl states that it is very important to keep the brain active. Not only by playing a Sudoko, but by, for example, following language courses or other training courses and visiting cultural institutions.
Together with six municipalities in Flevoland, the Network Dementia Flevoland and health insurer Zilveren Kruis, the GGD pays attention to dementia and a healthy lifestyle. During the Floriade, an exhibition about dementia and what the life of someone with this disease looks like will be on the site of a residential care center of Zorggroep Almere.
By: National Care Guide / Johanne Levinsky