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A collection of aromatic plants at the Experimental Agro-alimentary Station Tomás Ferro will serve to diagnose the disease
Families and people with Alzheimer's from the AFAL association have planted vegetables in the leisure orchards of the Tomás Ferro Experimental Agro-alimentary Station of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) this week.
A score of AFAL users have planted tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, radishes, aubergines, beans, spinach and piquillo peppers in 320 square meters that the UPCT has ceded to the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Disease and other Neurodegenerative Dementias of Cartagena and Region within the lands destined to the leisure orchards, that cultivate half a hundred students of the University of Majors of the Polytechnic.
"The goal is for the users themselves to take care of the products and collect them," says Raul Nieto, manager of AFAL.
"Contact with the field is a way for many of them to remember past experiences," says Station Director Eva Armero.
AFAL users have taken advantage of the opportunity to visit UPCT facilities in La Palma, experiencing experimental crops, organic production, tropical plant crops, projects such as the recovery of the Murcia hen and the production of 'Tomás Ferro' wine with grapes Merseguera. In the activity have also collaborated Red Cross of Cartagena and Denia (Alicante) and Civil Protection of San Javier, who have made the transfers of users of AFAL to the farm.
The collaboration between the UPCT and AFAL will be extended through workshops with aromatic plants that can serve to diagnose the state of the disease.
"We will prepare an aromatic collection to stimulate his memory", advances Armero.
Source: UPCT
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