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Relatives and people with Alzheimer's association AFAL Cartagena and the region have begun this afternoon to collect the horticultural products that they planted in the leisure orchards of the Experimental Agro-Food Station Tomás Ferro of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT).
Picking carrots, Alzheimer's sufferers have shared culinary recipes and recalled previous agricultural experiences, while weeding the orchard and nurturing other plantations.
“The objective is that the users themselves take care of the products and collect them,” says Raúl Nieto, manager of AFAL Cartagena and the region.
About twenty users of AFAL Cartagena and the region take care of products such as garlic, onions, radishes, potatoes, chard, carrots or spinach in 320 square meters that the UPCT has given to the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients and other Neurodegenerative Dementias of Cartagena and Region within the lands destined to the orchards of leisure, that cultivate fifty students of the University of Major of the Polytechnic.
"The contact with the field is a way for many of them to remember past experiences," says the director of the Station, Juan Esteva.
“It is an activity that motivates them a lot, because it allows them to get out of their daily routine and feel integrated in society,” added from AFAL Cartagena and region.
This activity is also possible because of the collaboration with the family counseling and equal opportunities, for the formation of social volunteering, which improve that the entity's volunteers can obtain training and practices in this group.
The collaboration between UPCT and AFAL Cartagena and the region extends to workshops with aromatic plant extracts that can serve to stimulate their memory by recognizing what they already knew before.
In addition to the joint development of activities with the university for the elderly, volunteering, research or extracurricular practices.
Source: afalct
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