This region has about 28,000 inhabitants with a high percentage of elders residing in villages. The Metropolis operates a plethora of social programs for elderly beneficiaries, such as care at home programs, a telephone line for the support of elders, food-related programs and physiotherapy centers. The Annousakeio Care Home and Rehabilitation Center was founded in 1970 with the aim to offer shelter to the elderly women of the Kisamos and Selinon regions. In 2015, about 90 elders were residing at the Care Home. Τhe Annousakeio Care Home is divided in 2 wings: one that specializes in dementia and one that operates as a traditional care home. Additionally, post hospitalization care is offered to patients through the Rehabilitation Center.
Cognitive Training Program
The grant regards the acquisition of a mental strengthening software system, which is directed to persons over 60 years of age that face mild to medium loss of memory and other cognitive functions. The software aims to exercise, stabilize, and improve the cognitive functions of users, through exercises that are carried out on desktop computers. The cognitive functions that are exercised are: perception, language, attention, direction, memory, organization and planning. During the sessions, the user with the guidance of a psychologist or social worker, follows an individualized program of cognitive training that is composed of a variety of exercises. The ultimate goal of the program is to aid persons with dementia and other cognitive impairment to attain a higher quality of life by non-pharmaceutical means. Due to the individualized nature of the program, each person can improve at his own pace/level in order to reach a smooth psychosocial level.
This grant is implemented through the Points of Support programme I.
This region has about 28,000 inhabitants with a high percentage of elders residing in villages. The Metropolis operates a plethora of social programs for elderly beneficiaries, such as care at home programs, a telephone line for the support of elders, food-related programs and physiotherapy centers. The Annousakeio Care Home and Rehabilitation Center was founded in 1970 with the aim to offer shelter to the elderly women of the Kisamos and Selinon regions. In 2015, about 90 elders were residing at the Care Home. Τhe Annousakeio Care Home is divided in 2 wings: one that specializes in dementia and one that operates as a traditional care home. Additionally, post hospitalization care is offered to patients through the Rehabilitation Center.
Cognitive Training Program
The grant regards the acquisition of a mental strengthening software system, which is directed to persons over 60 years of age that face mild to medium loss of memory and other cognitive functions. The software aims to exercise, stabilize, and improve the cognitive functions of users, through exercises that are carried out on desktop computers. The cognitive functions that are exercised are: perception, language, attention, direction, memory, organization and planning. During the sessions, the user with the guidance of a psychologist or social worker, follows an individualized program of cognitive training that is composed of a variety of exercises. The ultimate goal of the program is to aid persons with dementia and other cognitive impairment to attain a higher quality of life by non-pharmaceutical means. Due to the individualized nature of the program, each person can improve at his own pace/level in order to reach a smooth psychosocial level.
This grant is implemented through the Points of Support programme I.
