我們在一所老年癡呆癥患者之家的花園里做了一艘互動船

我們在一所老年癡呆癥患者之家的花園里做了一艘互動船

After working on it on and off for almost a year, we recently finished an interactive boat that serves as the centerpiece of the inner garden of the Nieuw Rijsenburgh retirement home in the Netherlands. It was named Quo Vadis, meaning “Where are you traveling?”.

在斷斷續(xù)續(xù)地工作了將近一年之后，我們最近完成了一艘互動船，它位于荷蘭Nieuw Rijsenburgh退休之家內(nèi)部花園的中心。它的名字叫Quo Vadis，意思是“你要去哪里旅行?”

Quo Vadis provides a multi-sensory interactive experience for residents of the home, many of whom suffer from dementia. We created the interactive boat because Nieuw Rijsenburgh is located on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee, and many of its’ residents spent their younger years working on the water or in the harbor, and we wanted to create familiar sensory experiences for the residents.

Quo Vadis為家中許多患有癡呆癥的居民提供了一種多感官互動體驗(yàn)。我們創(chuàng)造了這艘互動船，因?yàn)镹ieuw Rijsenburgh位于Goeree-Overflakkee島上，島上的許多居民年輕時都在水上或港口工作，我們想為居民創(chuàng)造熟悉的感官體驗(yàn)。

We bought an old Norwegian sloop from the 1940s that was rotting away and converted it to be placed in the garden, adding a walkway, a comfy bench and most importantly, a wheelhouse.

我們買了一艘20世紀(jì)40年代的挪威單桅帆船，它正在腐蝕，我們把它改造成了花園，增加了一條走道、一條舒適的長椅，最重要的是，還有一個駕駛室。

In the wheelhouse of the boat, residents can look out over a calm sea with seagulls flying through the air. They can use the wheel to steer the boat and watch the physical compass match the new course. The wheelhouse is filled with the familiar sounds of the wooden boat creaking, the engine chugging along, the waves lapping against the boat and the seagulls calling. A vintage radio provides multiple channels of well-known Dutch fisherman’s songs and sea shanties from residents’ youths to stir their memories.

在船的駕駛室里，居民們可以看到平靜的海面上海鷗在空中飛翔。他們可以用方向盤來駕駛船只，并觀看物理羅盤與新航線的匹配。駕駛室里充滿了熟悉的聲音:木船吱嘎作響，發(fā)動機(jī)嘎吱嘎吱地前進(jìn)，海浪拍打著小船，海鷗在鳴叫。一個老式收音機(jī)提供多個頻道的著名荷蘭漁民的歌曲和居民的青年海棚戶區(qū)，以激發(fā)他們的記憶。

Research has shown that engaging dementia patients with familiar sensory experiences can reconnect them to old memories and activate parts of the brain not affected by their disease. Music therapy, for example, using familiar old songs, has shown to greatly increase the quality of life for many patients, making them more active and engaged, and decreasing behavioral problems. It has been very rewarding to see residents start to hum and sing along with the old songs, or start to talk about their own time working on the water.

研究表明，讓癡呆癥患者擁有熟悉的感官體驗(yàn)，可以讓他們重新回憶起過去的經(jīng)歷，并激活大腦中不受疾病影響的部分。例如，音樂療法，使用熟悉的老歌，已經(jīng)顯示出極大地提高了許多病人的生活質(zhì)量，使他們更加活躍和投入，并減少了行為問題。看到居民們開始哼唱老歌，或者開始談?wù)撍麄冊谒瞎ぷ鞯臅r間，這是非常值得的。

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