Keeping memories | A project for people with Alzheimer and dementia

Keeping memories is an innovative project by Accademia Carrara in collaboration with ASST Bergamo Est and FERB European Biomedical Research Foundation Onlus, which takes shape in the museum-hospital relationship, becoming part of the offer of paths that see art as treatment, relief and well-being. Keeping memories represents an experimental therapy that responds to non-pharmacological needs, approaches and methods, for which the Alzheimer's Center of Excellence in Gazzaniga is known and appreciated.
Some of the museum's paintings, in the form of reproductions, enter the rooms of the Gazzaniga Center together with sensory elements specially chosen by the working group, made up of museum educators and health workers. With the help of a therapist, the patient goes through a large album of the works and is invited to choose one through which to stimulate memory and emotions. The works thus become silent bearers of experiences, they help feelings to flow and patients to find themselves. In the museum caregivers attend instead a psychological path with psychologist and museum educator.