About the Project

The Project

Cold water swimming for the prevention of Dementia and Depression project aims to:

Explore the existing methods of cold water exposure, synthesizing the main, most significant, and most promising methods.

The project activities will equip professionals working with adults with the skills and knowledge to carry out cold-water swimming training and workshops with adults, in turn allowing them to participate in this activity in a safe way, and in a way that could have these significant health benefits.

Project Objectives

  • Preventing dementia and tackling depression in people aged 50 +
  • Developing an innovative methodology for adults aged 50+
  • Testing the methodology that can change the approach towards the treatment of depression and dementia in adults
  • Providing professionals, trainers and coaches dealing with adults at risk of dementia or elderly affected by depression with an innovative tool that can change their approach
  • Spread a useful method that can be applied all around Europe
  • Increasing the cooperation of different type of organisations in combatting depression and preventing dementia in adults over 50 years of age

Target Group

Professionals working with adults such as psychologists, health workers, and social workers.

All adults (especially between the ages of 50 and 70), particularly those at-risk of developing depression.

“Cold water washes away troubles of the mind”

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