On the occasion of World Alzheimer’s Day, Rai Premium (digital terrestrial channel 25), in collaboration with Rai per il Sociale, broadcast the special The rediscovered country – The memory of emotions. The docu-reality tells the life and stories of residents, family members, professionals, operators and volunteers who live in the “Rediscovered Country”, a structure created and managed by the La Meridiana Social Cooperative of Monza which has been active for over 40 years in Third Sector in personal care and services. Alzheimer’s disease catapults the individual into a new reality in which what he was is no longer, in which every object that appears to him is unknown, in which every interaction is only momentary, being able to escape from his hands at any moment. . This is why the structure was conceived as a small town, where people affected by a progressive loss of cognitive functions lead a life appropriate to their abilities, feeling at home and at the same time receiving the necessary attention.
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The idea is that of the inverted square: the sick do not have to go outside to find things (a haberdashery, a hairdresser …) but the “shops” go inside to give a little serenity. Jonathan Franzen writes in the essay My father’s brain in How to be alone (Einaudi): “The pathologist’s identification of the senile plaques in my father’s brain served to confirm, as only an autopsy could do, the fact that my mother had struggled daily for many years: like millions of other Americans , my father had Alzheimer’s disease. ‘ And the description is a touching tale of this daily struggle and a rejection of the idea of disease.The rediscovered country is a program by Marco Falorni and Andrea Frassoni produced by Libero Produzioni Televisive and made before the lockdown.
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22 September 2020 (change September 22, 2020 | 23:11)
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