The Vice-President of the Provincial Council and Deputy for Culture, Julia ParraThe Spanish Ministry of Health and Public Health has signed a collaboration agreement with the Councillor for Health and Public Health, Ana Barcelówith the aim of "continuing to bring history and culture closer to people suffering from Alzheimer's and their relatives or carers, a practice that provides a great benefit to their quality of life thanks to the shared emotional experience, which favours social integration and increased self-esteem".
The CV-MARQ Foundation and the Behavioural Neurology and Dementias Unit of the Hospital de Sant Vicent del Raspeig will work together on this project for four years, during which time a programme of training, leisure, cultural and convivial activities for dementia patients and their families. Guided tours and educational workshops related to the permanent exhibition, archaeological sites and temporary exhibitions of the MARQ are included.
In addition, participants in the programme will be provided with learning resources aimed at creating memories through the contents offered by the chronological-cultural rooms of the museum, games reminiscent, guides didactics, stories to explain Alzheimer's disease, audiovisuals for educational purposes, etc.
The project also includes the organisation of courses and lectures aimed at disseminating the activities organised by both the MARQ Foundation and the Behavioural Neurology and Dementia Unit of the Hospital de Sant Vicent del Raspeig. methods of analysis The Unit's own work to evaluate the effectiveness of the actions carried out jointly and to be able to transfer them to other units, hospitals and institutions.
The MARQ Foundation has extensive experience in the development of initiatives aimed at people affected by Alzheimer's disease, among them the programme Marq. Museum and Memory against Alzheimer's'. The project was carried out with the Alicante Association of Relatives and Friends of Alzheimer's Patients (AFA), a pioneering project in Spain designed to promote the accessibility of the MARQ collections for people with this disease.
