2023-04-24 20:15:10
Reading is also health. With this conviction, transformed into her campaign slogan, the Jimenez Diaz Foundation has decided to celebrate this year the Day of the book, I celebrate yesterday, throughout the week, promoting mental health and emotional well-being through reading. In this strategy, which will continue from today until Friday with different actions in different areas of the Madrid hospital, aimed mainly at patients and family members, but also at center staff, it also has two travel companions: Ilunion and Editorial Plataforma.
And it is that “healthy lifestyle habits also include the mental and emotional sphere,” he recalls Aurora Herraiz EagleDirector of Social Responsibility of the Jimenez Diaz Foundation, recalling the valuable benefits of reading and that “prescribing a book is always a good treatment for our mental health”, since it enhances numerous cognitive capacities and processes such as attention, concentration and memory, activates knowledge and encourages the generation of emotions. “Reading and health have a lot to do with it, and from our hospital we are working in this regard with different initiatives,” she adds.
The role of reading in health
And it is that reading is one of the most curative treatments that healthcare professionals can prescribe to patients throughout life, and a very effective strategy for disciplined brain training. For this reason, it is recommended to encourage and keep this beneficial habit in mind in all the vital phases of the person, from childhood and adolescence, to stimulate the imagination and favor the learning of vocabulary, until adulthood, in which it keeps the brain active. , strengthens neural connections and increases cognitive reserve. Some advantages that become even more evident in the elderly, when reading improves concentration and memory and helps combat loneliness.
Commemorative actions throughout the week
In this scenario, and as a continuation of the name day of Book Day, the Jiménez Díaz Foundation has organized two actions throughout this week, each of which includes various activities, with which to celebrate the relationship between reading and health.
The first one, which is being developed between today and tomorrow Thanks to the collaboration of Ilunion, it consists of the free distribution to patients admitted to the Madrid center of an assortment of great classics of universal literature, donated by this business group belonging to the ONCE Social Group and delivered by its volunteers in the rooms of Hospitalization.
The 111 books donated by Ilunion also have a particularity that makes them easy to follow and understand: they are written in easy language, so they can be read by almost anyone, including older readers and people with certain cognitive disabilities, as explained Delio Diaz Garciamanaging director of Ilunion Retail.
Additionally, the ONCE group has made a QR code available to hospital staff and all patients and family members who pass through the store at the main entrance of the building today and tomorrow, with which they will obtain a two-month subscription to Audible, an Amazon service that offers a wide selection of audiobooks and podcasts.
donations
As for the second action, the Thursday and Friday Hand in hand with Editorial Plataforma, which has donated nearly 800 books to this campaign to promote health linked to reading. Specifically, the copies, which include a wide variety of titles of historical literature, novels and essays on different topics of interest and current affairs, will be delivered to patients and family members who come to the hospital’s Health Corner, located in the main hallway of the hospital. center.
At this information point, which allows the center to get closer to its users, provide them with information and advice on healthy lifestyle habits and help them to be the protagonists and authentic managers of their health processes through the Patient Portal (the hospital’s own application). , users will be able to take this literary gift, courtesy of the publisher, in addition to weighing and measuring themselves, and entering their health data in the app’s form. Thanks to this, they will be able to receive information and recommendations aimed at disease prevention through the application, and the professionals in charge of their clinical processes will have useful information for follow-up.
Additionally, volunteers from the María Auxiliadora association will be in charge of distributing the children’s reading titles donated by the Platform to admitted pediatric patients, following individualized reading to the little ones.
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