"Culture is Care: Training Workshop for Care Workers" Study

The aim of this project is to identify how a medical humanities intervention can act on the empathic capacity of carers through culture. One of the aims is to introduce an additional element to overcome the problems about language, prejudices, legitimisation by stakeholders who do not yet recognise the value and importance of projects promoting the relationship between culture, wellbeing and health. "Verba Curant" is aimed at generating cultural value, with the hope that it can unite the different professional fields involved and become the heritage of the community.

The project of the Alessandria Hospital Centre in collaboration with the Holden School intends to launch a series of actions aimed at promoting the beneficial impact of culture, in particular storytelling, on the caregivers and patients of the Alessandria Hospital in order to measure how much cultural enjoyment can impact on health literacy. It is planned to define a methodological tool useful for making care workers aware of the importance of culture and dialogue with patients, as well as being able to measure their degree of literacy. The tool will be the object of a widespread training action on care workers, which will also involve all the stakeholders involved in the transmission of health information to patients.