I revisited this site when a friend from college emailed it to me (“thinking of you”). I love that about Facebook/internet, that these things that move people so much find their way to you again after their initial flurry. The bad jokes and shocking warning emails tend only to make it around once (thankfully). [...]
Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Days with My Father
Posted in art, tagged end-of-life, photography, Toledano on March 9, 2010 |
A Penelope Update 3.2.2010
Posted in art, tagged aging, creative engagement, dementia, Luther Manor, Penelope, person-directed care, UWM on March 4, 2010 |
Sitting in a new, fully wired conference room in the new, fully wired (with caffeine and technology) Soref Learning Commons in the UWM library, with 3 really smart students and a really smart colleague – in a heated discussion about discovering themes/images/iterations of the Penelope story that will inform our discussions with family, staff, and [...]
My Hearty Research Team!
Posted in art, cultural phenom, long term care, public education, theatre, tagged Luther Manor, Penelope, Sojourn Theatre, theatre and aging, UWM on January 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Classes start up on Monday, and on Tuesday, we have our first scheduled meeting of the “Penelope Research Team,” 5 students and my colleague Robin Mello. We are entering the research stage of the Penelope Project, which will facilitate discussions with family, staff, and residents at Luther Manor Health Center’s nursing home (among other local [...]
Seeing the “AHA” in Their Eyes
Posted in art, cultural phenom, long term care, public education, tagged creative engagement, creativity and dementia, memory loss, NADSA, TimeSlips, trainings, WAHSA, workshops on September 28, 2009 |
In September I had the great fortune to two training workshops. The first was a TimeSlips creative storytelling training organized by a dedicated group of volunteers who are part of the Minnesota Dementia Care Professionals network. 130 people squeezed themselves around long tables in the chapel of a nursing home in St. Paul, MN. Joyce [...]
Community, Cultural Development
Posted in art, cultural phenom, long term care, public education, tagged community development and aging on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is a growing number of programs in the United States (and across the world), that link community activists and social justice workers with the arts and humanities – often by involving students through service learning programs. This is a potential and powerful mechanism for transforming long term care. Imagining America, a consortium of colleges [...]
Hope and Health
Posted in art, cultural phenom, public education, tagged arts and health, hopelessness, Mike White, mind body split, stroke on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s all one system. The way we think is of course, linked to what is happening in the rest of our bodies. “I think therefore I am” doesn’t separate the mind from the body, it announces that the two are linked. A new study out of the University of Minnesota finds that hopelessness leads to [...]
Inspiring meeting of Wisco museums
Posted in art, cultural phenom, tagged art museums, dementia on August 25, 2009 |
Not many meetings are inspiring…that’s for sure. But today, I attended a gathering of the 5 museums in Wisconsin planning programs for families with dementia. 5 museums, normally in competition for funds and members, agreed on a common name, looked for economies of scale in trainings of staff on the basics of dementia, shared plans [...]
Facility Focused on Creativity
Posted in art, long term care on August 4, 2009 |
I just read about this facility in the UK that has infused creativity and sensory stimulation into its design and mission. Can the US be too far behind? And can we do it in a meaningful way, not just a marketing way?
Wisconsin Museums Visit NYC
Posted in art, cultural phenom, disability, tagged alzheimer's, cultural programs, dementia, MoMA, museums on August 4, 2009 |
In July, I accompanied museum educators from 5 Wisconsin museums to NYC to learn about developing programs for families with dementia. The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan); the Museum of Wisconsin Art (West Bend); the Racine Art Museum (Racine…); the Milwaukee Public Museum; and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum (Wausau) were all awarded planning [...]
Museum in a nursing home
Posted in art, cultural phenom, disability, public education, tagged alzheimer's, art museum, hebrew home, nursing home, riverdale on June 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s really amazing what MOMA and other museums are doing now – offering educational programs in art to people with dementia and their families. But a NYT’s article today explores an even more radical step – bringing the museum to the nursing home. At the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, they have opened a Judaica museum. [...]
