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Families and people with Alzheimer's from the AFAL association have started this morning to harvest the vegetables they planted in the leisure gardens of the Experimental Agro-Food Station Tomás Ferro of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT).
Collecting Swiss chard, Alzheimer's patients have shared culinary recipes and recalled previous agricultural experiences, while cleaning the garden with weeds and guiding tomatoes.
"The goal is for the users themselves to take care of the products and collect them," says Raul Nieto, manager of AFAL.
A score of AFAL users planted tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, radishes, aubergines, beans, spinach and piquillo peppers in 320 square meters that the UPCT has ceded to the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Disease and other Neurodegenerative Dementias of Cartagena and Comarca Within the grounds destined to the leisure gardens, that cultivate half a hundred students of the University of Majors of the Polytechnic.
"Contact with the field is a way for many of them to remember past experiences," says Station Director Eva Armero.
"It is an activity that motivates them a lot, allowing them to get out of their daily routine and feel integrated in society," AFAL added.
The collaboration between the UPCT and AFAL will be extended to workshops with extracts of aromatic plants that can serve to stimulate their memory recognizing what they already knew before.
"We will prepare an aromatic collection to stimulate your memory," says Eva Armero.
Source: UPCT
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