The Panhellenic Federation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders is the coordinator of the Erasmus+KA2 project entitled “BRIDGE”. In the first phase of this project, three important workshops were organised.
The coordinator of the Bridge project in Greece organised a 2-day workshop in May 2019. A variety of people were involved: 3 healthcare professionals, 3 game designers, 3 caregivers, 13 older people and people with dementia, and 14 young people as volunteers. All 36 participants gave positive feedback not only for the well-organised sessions, but also for the chance to collaborate with different people and to exchange ideas and feelings. The final outcome of this collaborative workshop was that three new games were created.
On 29 and 30 May, in Elias Hospital in Bucharest, a co-creation workshop took place, organised by Asociatia Habilitas-CRFP, within the framework of the BRIDGE project. The participants included people with dementia, carers, healthcare professionals and young volunteers, who all worked together to create five new “serious games” which target the improvement of different cognitive areas.
In Carpi, on 13 May, Anziani e non solo (ANS) organised a workshop focusing on caregiving issues. A follow-up workshop was also organised for “Caregiver Day”, on 21 May. 13 people took part in the first workshop: 8 healthcare professionals, 2 game designers, 2 young volunteers and 1 carer. Participants were divided into 3 groups and began the day by playing existing games. All participants took part in the games, had fun playing and challenging themselves and the other participants. The atmosphere was relaxed and playful. During the workshop, three new concept ideas were developed: two were physical games and one was a digital game. During the follow up workshop, 32 people attended, 7 of whom were carers of people with dementia. During the second workshop, the concept ideas (developed during the first workshop) were presented and feedback was collected in order to re-design or improve them.
