After the stimulation of the photos I have taken to the laboratory manual that usually comprises the central corpus of cognitive stimulation, because the activities are designed to work different size and function of the brain , memory, spatial and temporal orientation, attention and concentration, and even the language and functions related thereto.
The proposed activity that day and reported here (Fig. 4) saw the presentation by an operator, a number of musical instruments from different parts of the world. This activity had as its focus to stimulate the musical skills, listening, attention, and the musicality of each harness but with no tracks or sheet music that are often difficult parts even to insiders. Users could play each instrument freely and at the same time and the result, as you can imagine, was a lively and ironic and blaring loud music band.
Later he went on to capture the remaining activities of the day, from lunch to the moments of free socialization, these moments of complete conviviality and narcissism that posed some subtle constantly under the lens of my camera.
All photographic, about seventy pictures, was then drawn to the computer and returned to the group, in the form of a real comic book.
A small clarification about the tool I would use it. The layout was done on purpose so as to overcome some deficits that dementia brings with it, in fact, visual disturbances (agnosia) and difficulty in recognizing faces (prosopoagnosi) would make useless the efforts made so far made. Posterize images, while maintaining vivid colors, has allowed me to make the photos and stylistically credible for a comic, and visually recognizable. Would not make sense, in fact, return a cartoon in which the actors there could recognize. The black and white layout as it seemed now the least appropriate in that picture too put off a little off, and also representative of the friendly and lively atmosphere of those days.
was especially important to give space to a narrative completely entrusted to the members of the center, that it was possible to indulge writing and experimenting with different captions for the first time in this type of creative activity. Also
activity had as its nerve center of the stimulation the reorientation time and space, often rendered defective by dementia. The temporal and parietal areas of the brain came to be so stressed and stimulated through reconstruction of several moments that make up a day to day center, with its activities and the places and spaces where they are made.
At various stages of implementation are not, of course, been moments of pure fun, the participants appeared to comics are indeed pleased to be the protagonists of a "picture story", as the closest definition to their tastes, as well as requests to appear natural and engaged in activities during the shooting, was accepted and paid with ease and irony. The enthusiasm of the first day it went on until the last lines, manifested by a constant demand towards me to bring the product to its final compimento, cosa che ha richiesto un po’ di lavoro extra.
Alla fine il prodotto è stato accolto con soddisfazione ed entusiasmo ed ognuno ha avuto la propria copia del fumetto.
Questo progetto pilota ha quindi corrisposto in pieno alle aspettative che avevo circa la propria fattibilità e l’interesse che poteva suscitare nei pazienti e ritengo quindi che possa essere inserito, senza difficoltà, nelle prassi di un centro diurno per malati di Alzheimer.
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