App with special features for people living with dementia. Armchair Gallery includes instructions for doing tried-and-tested creative activities. Discover, play & create with your favourite artists. Colour a Canaletto, create your own Hepworth, take a selfie with Lowry and much, much more…
NAPA is an expert in providing activities for people in care settings. NAPA staff and trainers are all experienced in the care industry, specifically in activity provision. To find available courses:
Arts organisation based in Lewisham specialising in arts for older people. Entelechy and Meet Me at The Albany are holding Age Against the Machine, Festival of Creative Ageing, 13 September – 6 October.
Entelechy are running an event as part of National Day of Arts in Care Homes: A 21st Century Tea Dance at Alexander Care. Also look out for The Home: a 48-hour immersive experience which explores the care home as a place of reinvention and possibility.
Publication, compiling 50 accessible arts activities, for use in any setting with older people. See online copy.
Equal Arts work to improve the lives of older people through creativity and arts activities around the country provide creative opportunities to help improve people’s wellbeing.
Find out more about Creative Age an initiative leading the way in dementia-friendly arts sessions and Hen Power giving residents access to animals and nature.
Museum of Liverpool has helped developed the House of Memories App and associated activities, resources and dementia training.
My House of Memories App allows you to explore objects from the past and share memories together. Take the time to sit with a resident and explore and play.
Designed for and with people living with dementia and their carers.
An evaluation of a two year project engaging in poetry activities with older people in residential and nursing homes.
Guardian article from 2018 about how poetry helps engage people with dementia.
Article about poet and author John Killick who has has written seven books on dementia, including Dementia Positive, Communication and the Care of People with Dementia and Playfulness and Dementia.
Living Words is an arts and literature organisation created by Susanna Howard. We live by our values of integrity, social benefit, equity & inclusion.
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Spin Turn Creative Movement Youtube page developed by Elaine Kordys, supports older people and people with a dementia diagnosis to have access to and involvement in creativity.
