Train your memory by kneading water and re-milled durum wheat semolina. Tickle faded memories by getting your hands dirty with flour and making orecchiette. This is what happened to the patients of the “Villa Anita” day center for cognitive disorders in Terlizzi, in the province of Bari, who for a morning, led by Arianna Campanella, lady chef Divella, prepared typical Apulian pasta.
Smiles and little ears have thus allowed the over 60s who attend the center to undergo therapy because “the cooking laboratory – explains the psychologist Ilaria Lorusso – can be considered a gym for the mind, it is an activity that stimulates sociality, being together and that’s why it has a great therapeutic effect in itself.”
“We are happy to have conveyed beautiful emotions to the elderly, aimed at their rehabilitation”, declares Domenico Divella, director of Divella and creator of the educational workshops which opens “to other structures who want to live this exciting experience with us”.
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