At the recent 34th Alzheimer Europe Conference in Geneva, as part of the parallel session “P39. Campaigning for change”, the concept of “DEMOTIC” was presented by Filippo Bergamo (Italy). “DEMOTIC” dementia cartoon videos were created un Italy, with the aim of providing content that is accessible to all ages, to help the public better understand dementia.
Two DEMOTIC cartoons have now been published online, created with the help of the same people living with dementia who voice the characters. People living with dementia were invited to be involved in the project, helping to write the scripts and doing voice recordings of the dialogues, leading to the creation of these two cartoons by a graphics studio.
With the cartoons now online, a study on the impact of the cartoons will be made after one year, by the Psychology faculty of the University of Bologna.
You can view the cartoons, here:
First episode: https://youtu.be/DSNmTb27uDI
Second episode: https://youtu.be/Si2c5u9_GzI
Pictured: Filippo Bergamo (centre) together with co-authors Andrea Fabbo and Rabih Chattat