The Lived Experience of With All
This step provides a personal account from Michele, who lives with dementia, and her husband Carlos, who have both participated in With All. Hear from them as they explain their …
Course: Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
Creativity and Co-creativity Part 1: With All
This step provides an insight into With All, a co-creative project for people living with dementia and their partners. The step explains what co-creativity means in practice, highlighting some of …
Creating common ground through multisensory arts practices
Arti Prashar (Artistic Director and CEO, Spare Tyre) describes how multi-sensory arts-based practices can engage people on a deeply emotional level and can create opportunities for creating common ground with …
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, …
The Lived Experience of Creating, Together
David, who lives with dementia, and his wife Rachel, talk about their experience of participating in a co-creative research programme called ‘With All’. They explain: What motivated them both to …
What is an aesthetic view of the world?
In this step Prof Julian Hughes (RICE Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of Bristol) explains what he means by using an aesthetic approach to people living with dementia. You …
The arts: how and why are they important in our lives?
This step focuses on exploring, contextualising and explaining what the arts are and what purpose they play – and have played throughout time – in all of our lives. In …
The Lived Experience: John and his music
John provides an insight into his life living with a diagnosis of semantic dementia and his relationship with music. If you’re affected by dementia yourself or care for someone living …
The Moment of a Diagnosis
In this video Damian Hebron explains the value of arts-based practices in the time that immediately follows a diagnosis of dementia. This addresses: Some of the common emotional responses that …
How do you measure the moment?
In this video you will learn about some of the methods that have been used to measure psychological and physiological in-the-moment responses of people living with dementia during arts-based activities. …
Challenges of engaging people with advanced dementia
Written by Susanna Howard, Founder & Artistic Director of Living Words. This article is written with artists in mind, but if you are a carer, volunteer or work in a …
How can the arts influence the relationship between residents and care staff?
Janice Galloway, Living Well Team Co-ordinator at Jewish Care, explains how arts-based activities can affect the relationship between care staff and residents within the environment of a residential care home. …
Why do the arts for people living with advanced dementia matter?
Damian Hebron, Head of Arts at Cambridge University Hospitals, explains how arts-based activities can enable in-the-moment experiences within the environment of a hospital ward. This video outlines the effects that …
Where can in-the-moment experiences take us?
In this last video of the week watch Prof Paul Camic outline a forward-thinking summary of how investing in in-the-moment experiences can advance the care and wellbeing of people living …
Observations from object handling
Prof Paul Camic shares some of the experiences that have come about as a result of people living with dementia participating in object handling sessions. This includes: A sense of …
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Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
