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

PhD researcher Emma Harding introduces her social science work which involves observing people living with PCA in their own homes. This step demonstrates how the arts and creative problem-finding solutions …

Artist Charlie Harrison and Prof Sebastian Crutch explore the Profiles in Paint canvases in greater depth. They discuss the extent to which it’s possible to read into the paintings and …

In this video visual artist Charlie Harrison describes how his project Profiles in Paint came about. The project led him to work with four individuals living with four different dementia …

Professor Sebastian Crutch and Julian West explain how the arts are able to convey certain aspects of the biology of the dementias which more typical scientific methods are not able …

How do changes in the brain cause us to see differently? Experience the world through the eyes of people living with a rare form of dementia that affects how they …

Professor Nick Fox gives a brief overview of some of the different, less known forms of dementia and what their symptoms can be. In this step you will: Learn about …

Science writer Philip Ball discusses his involvement in Created Out of Mind’s Brains in a Dish project, explaining how researchers at UCL have taken skin cells and grown them into …

Professor Sebastian Crutch and Dr Tony Woods provide an overview of why the arts enable us to see the dementias differently. In this step you will learn about the value …

Watch Prof Sebastian Crutch describe how the Created Out of Mind project came about to explore opportunities of bringing together work in the dementia and the arts field. In this …