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The “Motus Vita” offers help to sick people and their loved ones. 08.2015.
The support is aimed at helping people afflicted by neuromuscular diseases, providing them with comunication opportunities, offering with information about diseases, treatment methods, as well as about the psychological and social aspects.
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The NGO “Motus Vita” unites people suffering from ALS/MND and loved ones, helping them not to give in to their diagnosis, teaching them how to live with it and offering them more extensive opportunities to engage in public life. In August this year, the 11th International ALS/NMD Nordic Countries’ Conference took place in Jurmala.
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Conference participants discussed best practice globally for introducing care models and for the development of effective health service models for people suffering from ALS/NMD-related diseases in Latvia.
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The conference attracted participants from Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. This conference was previously held in Jurmala in 2011.
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Since 2011, the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation has supported the work of the NGO “Motus Vita”, helping people with special needs to play a more active role in public life.
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Similarly, the NGO issues and repairs technical means of assistance and organises informative and therapeutic activities. It also informs patients about the symptoms of the disease, as well as related psychological and social problems and ways of dealing with them.
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On view at the conference were works created by the members of "Motus Vita" during the course of their “art therapy”.
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