The value of things in our lives
This step delves deeper into object handling for people living with dementia. In this video you will be introduced to a research project that has been developed around object handling, …
Course: Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
Creating successful arts-based groups for people living with dementia
By Hermione Jones, Programme Manager: Music for Life Context For over 20 years Wigmore Hall Learning has been giving people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities opportunities to take part …
The Lived Experience: Kate and John
In this account Kate, who is the wife and carer of John (who lives with dementia) provides an insight into how the arts continue to impact on their journey through …
Dementia and learning
Isabelle Adams introduces the Singing With Friends choir. The video demonstrates not only how the group provides a regular opportunity for people living with dementia and their friends and family …
The Lived Experience: Tunbridge Wells Museum Object Handling Group
Watch Kate Sergeant (Alzheimer’s Society Kent and Medway) introduce object handling as an arts-based activity for people living with dementia. Based on an object handling programme for people living with …
Why does a moment matter and how can it be defined?
Hear Prof Paul Camic explain why we are interested in the moment, and why they matter to people living with dementia and everybody around them. This step will also focus …
Arts & Health in the UK: A National Overview
Watch Lord Howarth of Newport (All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing) and Arti Prashar (Spare Tyre) discuss the wider implications of incorporating arts-based practices into the general …
The Lived Experience: Keith & Rose
Watch Rose and Keith as they describe how arts-based practices have taken on an increasingly bigger role in their lives since Keith’s diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a language-based …
Working with people at different stages of their dementia journey
Barbara Stephens (Dementia Pathfinders) and Alice Thwaite (Equal Arts) discuss how no generalisations can be made when working with people with different demantias, or at different stages of their diagnosis. …
Capturing how care home residents respond to participatory music sessions
Julian West explains how he has introduced a novel method of data capture to Music for Life 360 sessions in care home settings. In this step you will hear Julian …
How can arts-based activities affect staff within care home settings?
Interview with Susan Shaw (Senior Carer, Hawkinge House). Written by Susanna Howard (Founder & Artistic Director, Living Words) The nursing home took Living Words on to run their writer training …
What impact can the arts have on residents in care home settings?
Caroline D’Souza, Creative Arts Development Manager at Jewish Care, explores how arts-based activities can be incorporated into care home settings, and what some of the impacts can be on the …
Inspiring the arts
Susanna Howard explains how the experience of dementia can inspire various artistic practices – including the work of young people and students. This step demonstrates how the lived experience of …
Inspiring the artist
Written by Shazea Quraishi, Poet and Living Words artist This account provides an insight into the artist’s perspective of what they have learned working with people living with a dementia. …
Inspiring ways of working
In this video Barbara Stephens (Dementia Pathfinders) and Susanna Howard (Living Words) focus on the importance of working with people with dementia, as opposed to seeing arts-based activities as something …
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Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives
