‘Postman Baldomero’ or ‘El Cartero Baldomero’ is an initiative developed in a nursing home in Seville that promotes traditional mail through hand-written letters that are exchanged between interns and volunteers from social institutions that are based near the nursing home. Camino is 85 years old and is one of the interns who collaborate in this […]
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Virtual reality to recover memories of youth
To enjoy places such as the Tristes Promenade or the San Nicolás Viewpoint. The residents of the San Juan de Dios Nursing Home are able to do it without leaving the facilities of this centre thanks to a virtual reality therapy that has just begun to be applied. This therapy makes them exercise their memory […]
An online radio show to preserve rural memories through the elderly
The oldest citizens of Taberno, in Almería, preserve the memories of the village through an online radio show called ‘El cajón de los recuerdos’ (or ‘The Memories Drawer’). There, the elderly tell how being a child or a teenager was like during the post-war. These pieces of history are captured in podcasts and stored in a […]
A fall detector sends alerts when the elderly suffer an accident at home
This fall detector is the result of the work of scientists from the Biomedical Engineering Research Group from the University of Seville. It is a small device that is place on the user’s back. The system, connected to a mobile app, detects when the person who wears it falls, and automatically sends an alert to […]