Course: Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing 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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …