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MEMORY WORKSHOPS

MEMORY WORKSHOPS

Status: Ongoing

Evaluated

Valencia Spain
Print this page City population: 79163225.9% over 60Practice started in 2016

Summary

Within the wide range of workshops and courses that the Valencia City Council allocates to the older people, the memory workshop has turned to be one of the most on-demand activities due to the increasing number of applications received.

The memory workshop is a free service that is geared at all those persons that are over sixty years old who want to exercise their memory. The workshops teach techniques that can help older adults stay cognitively active contributing to the prevention or delayed progression of disorders such as Dementia or Alzheimer’s.

The memory workshops guidelines are directed by specialized personnel from the Department for Active Ageing of the Valencia City Council with a degree of in Psychology. The length of each session is around an hour and a half, and each workshop has a maximum of 15 assistants. This way it is possible to offer a personalized attention while evaluating the correct progression of each participant.

Website: https://www.valencia.es/ayuntamiento/majors.nsf/vDocumentosTituloAux/Inicio?opendocument&lang=1&nivel=1

Key facts

Main target group: Older people in general

Sector(s): Health, Information and communication, Long-term care

Desired outcome for older people:
Meet their basic needs

Other issues the Age-friendly practice aims to address:
  • Dementia
  • Healthy behaviours (e.g. physical activity)

Contact details

Name: Jesus R. López Gálvez

Email address: spersonasmayores@valencia.es

Age-friendly practice in detail (click to expand):

Engaging the wider community

Project lead: Local authorities

Others involved in the project:
  • Older People’s Association

Older people’s involvement: Older people were involved in the age-friendly practice at multiple or all stages

Moving forward

Has the impact of this age-friendly practice been analysed: Yes

Was the impact positive or negative:
Positive

Please share with us what you found in detail:
During the course of the memory workshop, its practice helps to slow down and even detect early stages of mental illnesses such as Dementia, Alzheimer’s and memory disorders.

Expansion plans:
Yes, to other City Council Centers of Activities for Older People.

Looking back

Challenges:
The main challenge is to meet the increasing demand that these memory workshops are generating among the older people when they hear about their existence in the City Council Centers of Activities for Older People.