By Regina Altena | Project Leader
It is our pleasure to share with you our project activities, from February through April 2018.
The patients and family members had enjoyed a lot the recent spring days and the events we carried out at our Day Care Center:
February starts for our caring team with the preparations for the annual Valentine Day’s celebration. This year you can appreciate the huge heart built by red and white balloons where users sit in front of for the picture! Obviously after shooting followed dancing… enjoying a great time!
On March 26, our eldest “grandma” celebrated her birthday: 92 years! She is coming to our Day Care Center since 2010, and you can see how those eight years have made a big difference in her life and in her family’s life as well. Her disease has not advanced so fasten, and thanks to the therapies and simulation she receives every day in our Day Care Center, her quality of life has been better. She has not progressed yet to the last stage, being completely dependent and tied to bed, without being able to walk, to speak, to eat on herself…..she is very active and you can see her big smile! Many congratulations!
During the months of February and March, we received a very special visit. After a long application period, we were chosen to receive an in-kind donation we were very glad about. Three consultants (from Japan, United States and England) spent three weeks with us in order to learn about our institutional challenges, and to help us to scale our scope of work to another level. Thank you so much Global Health Team for all your insights and recommendations! We had a great time, and we appreciate very much all your support.
Spring arrives on March 21, and we did several celebrations. First, there was a special Reiki ceremony to welcome spring, and warmer days, and to receive the energy from the cosmos. Later on, the Caregiver team prepared some dynamics and role plays with all of the persons with dementia, and also with some of the family members who joined us this day.
This year, the Holy Week was early, so we started celebrations on Friday, March 23. This year we offered for the first time an unusual celebration, German style. Therefore, we boiled eggs and with all the patients and the staff, we had a great moment to color those boiled warm eggs. Many patients experienced for the first time how a white egg converted into a blue, red, green or yellow one! Then, after having had a little snack, the Easter rabbit already hid so well the eggs, that it took a while until the last one was found. We wished you all spent a very happy Easter season with your family!
On Abril 30, Mexico celebrates Children’s Day, and so did we at our Day Care Center. It was a very pleasant, delightful celebration with all the persons with dementia, who still remember very well their childhood! Today it was a special pleasure to see them dressed up to this unique occasion, which was a huge pool of clowns, dolls and even Minnie Mouse among us!
Please do not forget to stay tuned for our weekly radio program on internet Alzheimer Aprende y Actúa (Alzheimer’s Learn and Act), every Tuesday from 13 to 14 hours (Mexico City time) on www.radioapyt.com
We share with you a picture from our radio program on February 13, where the members of the Global Health Team joined us in a very interesting interview.
Your questions and comments are always very welcomed!
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