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Description of initiative
DUCA (Urban Alzheimer's Culture Program) is designed to accompany Alzheimer patients or with other related disorders with a focus on the needs and the evolution of the disease. This program is based on a collaboration between hospital, medical-social and cultural professionals who interact in cultural venues, healthcare settings and at home in case of disability. Various artistic and cultural activities are offered directly at the patients' residence. Their objective is to delay the progression of the disease and to improve the intellectual and psychic autonomy of the patient in a cultural and urban setting. Most of the activities are proposed for the caregiver-assisted couple in order to preserve and reinforce the relationship in a context different from the daily one. There are several workshops from theater, dance, music, pottery, photography proposed for the patients.
Themes: Culture and...
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Results, benefits, impact and lessons learnt
The available testimonies over the 15 years of experience of the association in supporting people with Alzheimer's disease emphasize that some patients they knew at the very beginning of the disease and they followed them also in a more advanced stage. If there hadn't been this support, the disease would have accelerated.