"I loved singing and dancing when I was younger, and there were a lot of friends here, and we were really happy to play games together." Jiang Apo, who has a characteristic residence, is the first batch of service objects of the Cognitive Health Support Center for the Elderly in Langxia Town, and she has not pulled down the course activities she carried out once, and she is a "loyal fan" here. She recalled: "There is a song that I have been singing since I was a child, and I have almost forgotten it, and I have learned it with everyone here and remembered it. As she spoke, she sang.
With the increasing degree of social aging, the cognitive health problems of the elderly are also increasingly concerned by all sectors of society. In September 2020, Langxia Town was identified by the Shanghai Civil Affairs Bureau as the second batch of pilot units for friendly communities with cognitive impairment in the elderly, and the first pilot unit in Jinshan District. In July last year, the Langxia Town Elderly Cognitive Health Support Center was officially opened, and the center has five major sites of "happiness and beauty", "auspicious and satisfactory", "warm memories", "longevity and happiness" and "'memory' road with you", providing a warm and comfortable life service place for the elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
According to the needs of early intervention of cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, the Elderly Cognitive Health Support Center employs expert doctors from the Department of Neurology of Jinshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University to sit in the clinic regularly to communicate with the elderly, and at the same time establish one person and one file to track the treatment and guidance of the elderly. The Elderly Cognitive Health Support Center regularly organizes dementia lectures and health education science lectures in the community to provide all-round support for elderly patients with cognitive impairment, so that family caregivers can also master the basic knowledge of cognitive impairment and corresponding care skills.
"We arrange different themes of lessons every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to provide intervention support for elderly friends through handicraft therapy, music therapy and exercise therapy." Zhu Hong, head of the center, said, "Recently, we are creating a number of new curriculum activities, such as integrating the elements of drumming on the basis of playing lotus and Xiang, further stimulating the learning interest of elderly friends and helping to improve the symptoms of cognitive impairment." ”
"Elderly friends want to wear something, happiness and health is not easy... Have time to sit in the health center and talk about home. Listen to lectures and watch movies, play Lian Xiang happy sentiments..." At the "Happy and Beautiful" station, Sun Lijuan, a member of the "Remembering" Road Friends and your volunteer team, is singing "Remembering the Road with You Is Really Wow" with the elderly. "This song is our own creation, self-composed and self-sung form so that the elderly can exercise their brains while relaxing their mood."
In recent years, Langxia Town has always been committed to the construction of services for the elderly, according to the regional characteristics and the distribution of the elderly population, subdivided into the old "service points", the construction of resources sharing for the old "service circle", through the establishment of love canteen, medical care, leisure and entertainment and other service areas, to ensure that the elderly in the "service circle" can enjoy high-quality and efficient services within 10 minutes.
Correspondent | Sun Jialing Tao Lina
Edit | Zhou Zhiyue (Trainee)
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