On January 17, the president of the Ager Foundation, Griselda Lozano, and Dr. Josep Maria Vendrell presented the Foundation's latest projects at the Parliament of Catalonia. The projects focus on cognitive diseases and environmental barriers suffered by people with disabilities. Ms. Lozano, explained the social context and the political incidence of the Ager Foundation projects that have made possible legislative changes at the national level. Dr. Vendrell, neurologist and founder of the Escola de Patologia del Llenguatge del Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau de Barcelona, explained with scientific evidence the application of new technologies to improve cognitive problems. He also explained how these technologies can be introduced in the educational program aimed at children with cognitive disorders or memory, attention and language difficulties, and in the healthcare system aimed at adults.
The appearance and proposals were well received and the parliamentary groups took turns of questions concluding the importance of the innovation of the projects presented, while congratulating the Ager Foundation and its team for the important and necessary work they do, expressing the interest and commitment of the Parliament of Catalonia, to legislate measures to enable this innovation can reach society and especially for the benefit of the most vulnerable people.