Montecatini Terme: experiences with elderly patients

Author :MD Antonio Galassi Montecatini Terme Leonardo Proyect:Thermal Baths for Active Ageing Montecatini Terme October, 22th 2011

Montecatini Terme

22 october 2011

Mons Catilinae

1348-1429
DE BALNEORUM ITALIAE PROPRIETATIBUS (1417)

Montecatini between past and present

Solvit ventrem mirabiliter et renum opilationes aperit, aliquando lapidem solvit et necat et expellit vermes, per accidius excitat appetitum

Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562), prof. of Medicine Univ. Ferrara, Padova and Pisa Pompeo della Barba (1521-1582), author of De Balneis Montis Catini Commentarius Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720), first scholar of the dry residue of Tettuccios water Maria Skodowska, better known as Marie Curie (1867-1934) Nobel Prize in Medicine Daniel Bovet (1907-1992) Nobel Prize in Medicine

Montecatini Terme 1770

Montecatini Terme 2011

The next future SpA

Stars and celebrities in Montecatini Terme

LEONARDO PROJECT

1452-1519

The man that wolk correctly not fall to the ground

In Europe there are 500 millions inhabitants

In Europe the 18% of population is over ages of 65

In the 2060 the rate will be 30 %

In Italy the 19,4% of population is over ages of 65 In Romania the 17,2% In Spagna the 17,9%

thermal interventions on quality of life in chronic diseases

Thermal Treatments 2010

for chronic diseases

Respiratory Therapy 126.726 Drinking Water Therapy 60.486 Mud Therapy 39.201 Hydromassages .15.906 Bath Therapy 7.448

Respiratory Therapy in Montecatini Terme 2010

Thermal Treatments 126.726 Ages of Patients 3-80 years old (average age 68,2)

Mud-Bath Therapy in Montecatini Terme 2010 Thermal Treatments 46649

Ages of Patients 27-75 years old

(average age 70,2)

Drinking Water Therapy in Montecatini Terme 2010

Thermal Treatments 60.486 Ages of Patients 30-80 years old

(average age 72,2)

Hydromassages in Montecatini Terme 2010 Thermal Treatments 15.906

Ages of Patients 27-80 years old (average age 71,4)

Water is essential to life because it satisfies pleasures and needs of everyday (Vitruvio Pollione, 23 A. C.)

Thank you

The principals components water of Montecatini

Chlorine Magnesium Iodine Ion sulphate Calcium Bromine Lithium Potassium