How can the arts help us understand dementia as something other than a deficit?
Watch Julian West, Dr Hannah Zeilig and Prof Julian Hughes explain how the arts can help us to understand dementia in ways which do not concentrate on loss and deficit, but rather on the other characteristics which make us human and give us identity.
This includes:
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How a loss of memory – as often experienced by people living with dementia – does therefore not imply a loss of identity.
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That a loss of a cognitive ability caused by a dementia does not have to become the defining characteristic of person -for some it can release creativity.
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The concept of individuals being ‘Situation Embodied Agents’, and how the arts are well-placed vehicles to convey this notion.
Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
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