Eslováquia

  

Dobré roky 50plus/Good years 50plus/ - Slovakia. Our organization has been established in 2007.We are non governmental, nonprofit organization and our members operate on the basis of volunteering. Many of our members are still economically active but we have also many members in retiremet age

Our priority is mainly to organize free time activities and partially vocational training for adults, with an emphasis on strengthening (reinforcement) of independence and self-confidence of "seniors" in everyday life. We focus on developing life skills, in the sphere of physical as well as mental condition in the form of workshops, training courses, short courses, competitions, but also excursions or trips.

Within the framework program LLLP our organization has  already in the past established friendly relations and cooperating with partners from the EU

Meeting in Athens

Our little Slovak group has participated in the project meeting of the Grundtvig Partnership project named Active Body + Active Mind = Healthy Senior organized by 50+Hellas in Athens, Greece  on the 21., 22., and 23th. of October 2013.

And our friends from Czech Republic, Finland, Portugal and Turkey were also there.

The host group, chaired by Mrs. Giorgia Michalopoulou prepared very challenging but extremely interesting program. 

The main topics of the meeting were Reflexology + Memory + Nutrition.

Reflexology was associated with a showing foot massage and highlighting the importance of individual zones. Excellent presentation of Reflexology as supplementary and holistic therapy in country of Hippocrates and Aesclepios as tender healer was important not only for physical body, but also emotional. This therapy should be as a medicine. In Greece make it voluntaries, they supported children and adults.

In Memory have its center of gravity in memory skills training meeting participants who have acquired some of the terms in the languages of its foreign partners, for example. greetings, thanks, numbers, names of individual days of the week and the like. It was extremely difficult, because these languages met for the first time.

 The art of memory was developed by ancient Greeks, e.g. mnemotechnics. Memory is the most significant aspect  of both -  intellectual and spiritual activity.

Active body cooperated with brain and support memory. But it takes longer to learn and recall information in later age. We also focused on ways in which you can keep and practice memory skills into old age.
In the section on nutrition, we learned a lot about Human digestive system - ingestion and mechanical and chemical digestion, on suitable and unsuitable food for the elderly, etc...

All together we visited K.A.PI. (Senior House in Municipality of Elioupolis. Tam held Greek evening with folklore dance, singing and traditional Greek food cooked by the ladies of project´s team and meeting with Vice Mayor of this municipality.

The last day was devoted to visiting Epidaurus in the Peloponnese, where we saw

presentation of an ancient chorus by the Study group of ancient orchestra of The National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. 
In addition, we also visited the healing place of god Asclepius and Thermal Spa in Loutraki and we had the opportunity to use the thermal pools.

From project and even entire stay, we not only took away a lot of knowledge, but also many beautiful experiences and new friendships.

Now, our Slovak organization is a difficult challenged - to organize in April 2014 just as interesting, useful and even enjoyable meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Marcela