Walking the talk for dementia: A unique immersive, embodied, and multi-experiential initiative.

ABSTRACT: Coping with dementia requires an integrated approach encompassing personal, health, research, and community domains. Here we describe "Walking the Talk for Dementia," an immersive initiative aimed at empowering people with dementia, enhancing dementia understanding, and inspiring collaborations. This initiative involved 300 participants from 25 nationalities, including people with dementia, care partners, clinicians, policymakers, researchers, and advocates for a 4-day, 40 km walk through the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. A 2-day symposium after the journey provided novel transdisciplinary and horizontal structures, deconstructing traditional hierarchies. The innovation of this initiative lies in its ability to merge a physical experience with knowledge exchange for diversifying

SUBMITTER: Aguzzoli Peres F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10984440 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature