During the last meeting of Lions Club Cremona Stradivarithe president Rita Garavelli implemented one of the planned services by delivering a contribution to the managers of the Elisabetta Germani Foundation of Cingia De’ Bottithe general director Ivan Scaratti and the health director Isabella Salimbeni. The RSA Germani is committed to assisting people of advanced age or with chronic neurological pathologies, first and foremost Alzheimer’s.
The evening continued with a very interesting conversation by Alfonso Montefusco, dog expert, writer and journalist invited by member Silvia Galli. The guest talked about the centuries-old presence of the dog in human life and underlined the peculiar aspects of the various dog breeds and the different tasks that they are able to perform if properly educated. He explained how the dog has adapted to being a domestic companion and defense animal, but also how, thanks to its versatility, it is now increasingly present in social and healthcare activities. He mentioned the mountain and maritime rescue dogs, the dogs useful in searching for people in the event of misfortune, the dogs capable of alerting glycemic crises in diabetics, the therapeutic support dogs in neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s, and finally the guide dogs for the blind, which represent one of the main services of the Italian Lions.
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