The MoMA Alzheimer’s Project, which opens access to this magnificent cultural treasure to people with dementia and their families, now has a guide for museums interested in replicating their program.
You can download the Guide for free, thanks to support from the MetLife Foundation.
This marks a really exciting shift in the field. Rather than create [...]
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Don Moyer and Jenny Knauss, the folks behind Alzheimer’s Spoken Here, worked with sociologist Renee Beard and a student to pull together a mammoth literature review of all the academic citations having to do with non-pharmacological interventions in dementia care, a.k.a. the arts and creative expression.
It’s a great list - and a great way to [...]
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I’m always trolling for news about creative expression and dementia, and came across this one today - Creativity Not Slowed by Dementia in the San Mateo Times (CA).
Enjoy.
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I had a conversation yesterday with a friend who had just talked with some of the fascinating folks doing person-centered dementia care in Australia. There is lots of work happening internationally that fell out of the scope of Forget Memory (which is United States-centric), and I start this series of entries to draw people’s attention [...]
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I ran out to Harry Schwartz bookstore this morning (just as it opened) to pick up the new novel by Stefan Block, The Story of Forgetting, but it’s not due in the store until April 1st - no joke. Block’s book received a great review today in the NYT’s. Block’s novel playfully [...]
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Posted in art, cultural phenom, tagged alzheimer's, child as parent, forgetting, In The Moment, Karen Stobbe, memory, parent as child, Pigs in a blanket on November 3, 2007 | No Comments »
When people talk or write about care giving experiences, you’ll often hear or read something like this: “I’m the parent now.” I’m so intrigued by this theme in care giving stories, particularly in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Do people really see these relationships as the same? What differences do they ignore? We have a [...]
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Posted in art, cultural phenom, film, tagged aging, Still Kicking, Greg Young, Melissa Godoy, Do Not Go Gently, arts, Young at Heart Chorus, Young@Heart on October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
There are a bunch of new documentaries out (or coming out) about aging and creativity. There’s Do Not Go Gently by Melissa Godoy. There’s Still Kicking by Greg Young. Both these films profile life-long artists and people new to creative expression. Artists never really did fit into the 9-5 crowd, [...]
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Posted in art, books, cultural phenom, tagged memory, imagination, theatre, Complicite, Mnemonic, alzheimer's, dementia, forgetting, forget on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Way back in the spring of 2001, I saw a production in New York by one of my very favorite theater groups in the WORLD, Theatre de Complicite (they also did an amazing Broadway version of Ionesco’s Chairs) The play was called Mnemonic. Here is a line from the opening monologue…
“But what I [...]
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Posted in art, film, public education, tagged , , aging, alzheimer's, dementia, documentary, forget, forgetting, generations, intergenerational, memory, Michael Verde, Naomi Feil, poetry, Robert Pinsky on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Memory Bridge has a lovely new website and a new documentary film that dares to step into the world of late stage dementia and hope for connection. It’s tricky territory - many caregivers see only a void of hope and meaning. The film profiles the Memory Bridge curriculum, which partners middle and high [...]
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Posted in art, cultural phenom, tagged , aging, forget, forgetting, Greenberger, intergenerational, interview, memory, milwaukee, music, paul cebar, wisconsin on September 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve admired David Greenberger’s work since I first encountered it in 1994. Greenberger has a way of posing a question that deflates any pretense and invites expertise (or at least some serious sass) from the respondent. This February, Greenberger will be in residence at the Center on Age & Community in Milwaukee to [...]
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