ACDC Project Multiplier event titled: "Fighting dementia by playing games: The role of technology in preventing and treating it".
➤ Online Games and technology in the 3rd age: Is it possible?
➤ Are technology and the game weapons against dementia?
➤ Can I have results and monitor my progress while playing?
➤3rd age and development of digital skills. Is it working?
At our event, we will present answers to the above questions giving the attendees the opportunity to be informed about dementia, its forms and how we can distinguish it from simple daydreaming. To be informed about educational programs and actions for the 3rd age, to discuss and exchange views in relation to the challenges and obstacles they face in the implementation of the integrated care of the elderly with dementia through the application of new technologies, online games and development of activities for digital skills.
To this end, we host a series of presentations and open dialogue by scientists and professionals, representing organizations with intense social activity and active in new technologies, the development of digital skills, the education of the elderly, the care of the elderly and the medicine of the elderly, with the ultimate goal of approaching and improving their lives.
"We do not stop playing because we grow up, we grow up because we stop playing" - George Bernard Shaw
EVENT SCHEDULE
➤18.30 - 19.00: Arrival
➤19.00 - 19.10: Welcome - Greetings Grigoris Archimandritis - InterMediaKT | Chrysanthopoulos Konstantinos, President of the Panhellenic Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Emeritus Professor of Pathology - Infectious Diseases.
➤19.10 - 19.25: "In dementia technology is a window to the world", Dr. Panagiotis Alexopoulos - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Medicine of the University of Patras.
➤19.25 - 19.40: "Memory is our teammate in active aging", Maria Asteriou, Co-Founder of People Behind.
➤19.40 - 19.55: "Memory strengthening games and the results of the European program ACDC Project", Greg Archimandritis, Project Manager InterMediaKT.
➤19.55 - 20.10: "Digital tools and dementia: Caring in times of pandemic", Dimitris Theodoropoulos, Social Worker and General Manager of the Public Benefit and Care Association for the Elderly and the Disabled - I take care of.
➤20.10 - 20.25: "Technology, media and the elderly", Ioannis Manos, Nephrologist.
➤20.25 - 20.30: Closing of the Event - A Dialogue with the speakers will follow