How do you reach the people who are difficult to reach?

In this video Damian Hebron, speaking on behalf of the London Arts in Health Forum, continues to discuss some of the challenges around reaching those with dementia to enable them to engage in arts-based activities.

Damian presents some of the pressures on social care, and how the provision of and access to arts-based practices for people living with dementia is patchily provided throughout the country.

He explores how people living with dementia often have preconceptions about the arts and how it is not for them, and how many programmes are not adequately geared up to welcome people living with a dementia diagnosis.

Are you able to share some of your own experiences about the challenges you’ve had in accessing dementia friendly arts-based progammes? Or are you able to share your experiences around why a group or programme (which does not need to be named) was not adequately equipped to welcome people with dementia? Please share your experiences in the comments.

CREDITS We would like to thank the Cambridge University Hospital Dance Project for providing the supplementary images (stills from video) for this video.