Creation of a relaxation studio for Alzheimer patients

The Air Liquide Foundation is supporting the creation of a “snoezelen” studio in a retirement home for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Lions Club - logo A real challenge for public health, Alzheimer’s disease inexorably progresses with age and affects one woman out of four and one man out of five after the age of 85.

Faced with the high frequency of Alzheimer’s, the suffering it causes the patients and their families and the weight in taking these patients in charge entails, the Lions Club Paris Senior 1 association decided to mobilize in favor of improving the quality of life of these sufferers and those closest to them.

The Alzheimer patient overwhelms his family with his needs, is isolated and gradually loses his cognitive function.
The Lions Club project is attempting to provide a solution for these three problems by setting up and equipping a day room in a retirement home for about 50 Alzheimer patients. The objective: fighting the disease’s progress.

In this new relaxation studio, volunteers, the retirement home personnel use an original method called “snoezelen”. This therapeutic approach, developed by two Dutch psychologists, consists of a sensorial stimulation and a corporeal relaxation of the patient through stimuli involving the five senses: music, light games, vibrations, odors, tactile sensations… it diminishes certain behavioral problems and tensions of daily life.