A global ecosystem for the independent and healthy living of elderly people with mild

cognitive impairments

2-3 February 2015

ehcoBUTLER

AIMA is a No-Profit Voluntary Association, established in Italy in

January 1985 , in Campania, in January

2000

whose aim is the improvement of the quality of life of healthy elderly people and of individuals suffering

from Alzheimer’s Disease and their relatives

“AIMA Team”

AIMA is always on the side of patients and their families, to look at their needs as concrete problems to answer in real time, but also to look at questions that must be of interest not just for them, but for the entire community.

Aima exists to remember to our politicians and administrators, those who have no voice to claim their right

AIMA Napoli Onluspresentation

Since its inception in Campania, Aima Napoli Onlus has implemented the model AIMA …Amiamoci, based on a biopsychosocial approach in the context of a process of humanization and continuity of care, and shared in 2003 by a network of international experts, to take care of patients and their families since their diagnosis, throughout the course of the disease and until the terminal phase, through a range of services to the person with the contribution of ANIMA Association

AIMA…AMIAMOCI …an innovative biopsycosocial care model

Alzheimer’s disease and their families, an instant dedicated door connecting directly people’s demands with our professional response, guaranteeing the realization of a unified system of acceptance and management of the demand for “care”

This includes the Listening Center with listening, information and guidance functions, which leads to an adequate and appropriate support for home care. It represents, for people with

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CENTRO ASCOLTO every day from 9.00 to18.00

AIMA Laboratoriesto face the cognitive, emotional,

behavioural and functional impairments of their users by offering several rehabilitation

programs, including

Reality Orientation Therapy (ROT), Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST), Reminiscence Therapy (RT), Remotivation

Therapy, Validation Therapy and Occupational Therapy…

patients have the opportunity to paint, draw,

read, listen to the music, converse with other people

and in general to stimulate their cognitive and sensory

abilities, enhance their residual skills, improve their

mood and reduce social isolation

“Self-Help Groups”are meeting places where caregivers can share their

experiences and emotions.A space where they can exchange Mutual Help

but also a meeting place between therapeutic families

and professionals to get information, tips, advice and

together build pathways to care and welfare.

Ambulatory Clinic for Dementia is a project whose aim is to follow the patients during the entire course of

the pathology, from the diagnosis to the therapy with

AIMA psychologists

Home Care Services Social Transport

Ambulatory Dementias

Integrate, narrate, communicate, share,

live together

Alzheimer Caffè for

The first in Campania, published in 2011, it is the result of 10 years of the presence of AIMA in this Italian region, the point of reference for individuals with their own needs and for the entire community. An opportunity to reflect collectively on what is our role and on how to evolve constantly in relation to our mission and to what patients and Caregiver ask for, a real and concrete point of departure and a useful tool for the actions of future social policies, as well.

The AIMA Report on Alzheimer's

Alzheimer Stories everyday This volume, published in 2007 is the result

of a synergy of purposes and a two-year collaboration between Institutions and Family Associations. It contains the caregivers’ autobiographical experiences and their real-life stories, told and gathered during the Self Help- Groups.

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Education and training:•Regional Vocational Course for Alzheimer’s Caregivers•Training Course for Home Care Assistants•Educational Path “from Caregive to Caregiver”

With regard to research, AIMA Napoli Onlus takes part in scientific studies relating to social, psychological and etiopathogenetic aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease, allowing marked academic advances and improving significantly the social wellbeing.

Educational path for the family competentfrom "Caregiver to Caregiver ..."

In “ehcoBUTLER” AIMA will conduct a pilot study which will last for 18 months, including 150-200 patients with

mild Alzheimer’s disease and their relatives

AIMA’s role in the project

Users will take part in different activities, including cognitive stimulation therapy, music

therapy, art therapy, emotion, cooking and wellbeing laboratories.

These will be supported by using ehcoBUTLER platform and technology. Using tablets and electronic devices, with both

leisure and care apps, will help our patients, enhancing their cognitive, emotional and social functioning and their

caregivers

CONCLUSIONS

AIMA, with its political role, will focus more and more on the innovation and promotion of healthy policies, more than ever, attentive to the weakest people. Already in the past, we have been ,several times, active protagonists of planning policies, and although there is still much to do, we achieved a multitude of results. Among our main demands: personal services, criteria for quality of service, reward systems, and a funding system based on the verification of the quality of the offered services, the costumer’s satisfaction and benefits provided, care allowance.

Humanizing, Prevention and Protection of Health,

Promotion of the Adequacy and Quality of

the Assistance...

These are the keywords always pursued in our model AIMA…Amiamoci.

Thank you for your attentionCaterina Musella

Sociologist President AIMA www.aimanapoli.it – info@aimanapoli.it Tel. 800098546 081/7400245