Spominčica (Alzheimer Slovenia) is a partner in a new Erasmus+ project, called Super Lingo. The project consortium consists of five European countries: Scotland (Lingo Flamingo), Ireland, Slovenia, Greece and Romania. The kick-off meeting took place in Dublin, Ireland on 28 and 29 November 2019. Project partners will develop linguistic memory games and role-playing games for older adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The games aim to help them enhance their cognitive functioning, and to assist users in acquiring new knowledge of foreign languages.
Alzheimer Slovenia will carry out focus groups, where they will find out which way of studying foreign languages is the most convenient, suitable and what are the potential benefits for choosing specific methods of learning. Bilingualism can delay the onset of dementia by up to five years, says Alzheimer Slovenia, and research is actively being done into the areas of foreign language training as cognitive therapy, impacting decision-making, multitasking, concentration and communication.
