Alzheimer’s forces nursing homes to accelerate their transformation

by time news

2023-09-21 06:00:00

Faced with the increase in neurocognitive disorders among their residents, groups are striving to invent “the nursing home of tomorrow”.

It’s an extraordinary artistic residency. For two weeks, Régine, Marthe, Paul * and the others left the Villa d’Épidaure, their retirement home located in the Paris region, for a Breton manor in the heart of the Brocéliande forest. Suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, they participated in writing, theater and music workshops, accompanied by an art therapist, musicians and a poet, as well as some of their caregivers.

This unique experience, which took place a year ago, is part of a research project by the LNA Santé group and will give birth in 2025 to a documentary by an independent director. “ We have left any institutional frameworksays Laure Jouatel, medical director of LNA Santé.This allowed us to assess the impact of the environment on sleep, quality of life, the moral of our residents with Alzheimer’s disease, but also on the quality of life at work for professionals. We are not afraid…

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