Green Therapy is an umbrella term for all approaches and practices based on the healing power of nature.
Through a sense of reverence and gratitude towards the environment, green therapy, also known as ecotherapy, encourages people to build a lasting, meaningful relationship with their natural surroundings – considered a key source of physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.
Andrea Mati, one of Italy’s leading experts in therapeutic green spaces, explains:
“We know how important it is for people with dementia to reactivate cognitive functions that have declined due to the progression of the disease.
In particular, people need to reclaim their sense of self, which can only happen through memory recall: the retrieval, if even partial, of memories from childhood and youth”.
This interview was published in Toscana Oggi – Inventario section – by Verdiana Corbianco – 15/06/2025.