In the nursing home San Juan de Dios in Granada, they use Reborn babies as a new therapy to counter the cognitive decline of elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease. They provide relief in moments of agitation or anxiety, and are an alternative to drug treatment. In one year, they have managed to reduce ‘negative episodes’ […]
nursing home
A real-time location system allows a nursing home to be selected as the smartest in Spain
The Beato Fray Leopoldo Home in Granada has been selected as the smartest nursing home in Spain by the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers. Their system allows them to locate the residents in real time, and also detects if any of them have a fever, using thermal cameras.
Traditional mail to keep the minds and wonder of the elderly alive
‘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 […]