What do we do:
Daycare Unit

The Daycare Hospital is a social health service that offers daytime assistance to people, primarily under 65, with cognitive or dementia. The person and his family benefit from comprehensive therapeutic care. The approach is interdisciplinary, able to cover the needs of the person and their family in early and moderate phases of the disease.

The objective is to offer continuous therapeutic attention in the physical, psychic and social aspects, as well as:

• Rehabilitate and restore deficits, stimulate to delay the progressive loss of abilities, optimize the residual functional capacities of the person and alleviate and replace deficiencies. 
• Delay or prevent the hospitalization of the patient and keep it in their usual environment.
• Offer health education and provide information, advice, training and support to families: emotional containment, reduction of the burden.
• Promote the formation of support groups and mutual aid.
• Encourage coordination and collaboration with the necessary resources to establish the most accurate diagnosis possible.

The Dementia Day Hospital has authorization for a total of 75 places, of which 52 are arranged with CatSalut.

It offers the following services:

• Cognitive psychostimulation
• Occupational therapy
• Supervision and support for personal healing and activities of daily life
• Specialized health care and nursing care
• Social care
• Periodic cognitive assessments
• Attention, support and training for family members
• Feeding
• Physiotherapy
• Music therapy

The multidisciplinary team is formed by medical personnel specialized in neurology, geriatrics, psychiatry as well as specialists in neuropsychology, psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and music therapy.

The memory stimulation workshops are aimed at people who have memory loss. This type of therapeutic intervention makes it possible to maintain functional autonomy in the affected person's daily life for as long as possible. Structured memory training responds to the current demand presented by family members.

The objectives of the memory workshops are:

• Use residual learning abilities in the early stages of the disease.
• Create a weekly routine in the assistance of the person with dementias to the group.
• Provide a state of well-being, decreasing the responses of anxiety and depression, and improve the quality of life.
• The group format promotes the interaction of the participants, acting as a support and self-help tool.

The groups of memory workshops are small, a maximum of seven people. The user attends two weekly sessions of an hour and a half.