How can we continue to offer enjoyable interactive programs for people living with dementia in a time of pandemic and isolation? In this essay, Susan McFadden describes how a nonprofit in Wisconsin is staying connected with people who formerly attended memory cafes in person and who used to enjoy daylong outings together.
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The NEST Collaborative CAN Show Us a Way Through the Pandemic
“There is just such a silence. If you turn on the TV or the radio it just forces more of a silence.” Reflects Mary Lee Fulkerson, an expert on the lived experience of Dementia in Nevada, about her experience with the pandemic. “I don’t interact with that well. I get depressed watching the news so […]
Read MoreReimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice Join Us!
Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of dementia activists and allies – health professionals, people living with dementia (young and old), carers/care partners, family and community members, advocates, artists, academics, policy makers and others – who share a diverse and humanizing vision of care and support that promotes inclusion, relationality, creativity, […]The post Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice Join Us! appeared first on ChangingAging.
Read MoreLet’s Improvise! Navigating dementia (and pandemics) with creativity, humanity and growth
How improvisation gives us a powerful tool for moving from “How things should be” to “What can we create given what exists?” – and the most humanizing shot at relating to the strangeness, the fluidity and the uncertainty of dementia (and pandemic life) in ways that promote intimacy and growth rather than frustration and humiliation.The post Let’s Improvise! Navigating dementia (and pandemics) with creativity, humanity and growth appeared first on ChangingAging.
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