Green Candle is one of the UK’s leading dance companies working with older people.
Find out about training opportunities including Moving Into Maturity, a two day training course for people working with older people and people living with dementia.
Green Candle is one of the UK’s leading dance companies working with older people.
Find out about training opportunities including Moving Into Maturity, a two day training course for people working with older people and people living with dementia.
This toolkit produced by Courtyard Arts is designed to support
poets, care staff or anyone interested in running a dementia poetry project.
Vamos Theatre is the UK’s leading full mask theatre company.
Read MoreEducation & Outreach at the in the Royal Albert Hall includes dementia friendly film screenings, tea dances and Royal Albert Hall Songbook – one hour concerts for care homes in London and the London Home counties.
Find out more about all available activities
Read about The Reader Organisation’s Shared Reading initiative to improve well-being, reduce social isolation and build resilience in diverse communities across the UK and beyond.
Find out about related research and training opportunities.
Article about Care UK poetry writing competition with examples of some of the prize winning poems.
BUPA study into the health and well-being benefits of dance for older people.
Evaluation of the benefit of drama, music and dancing in
improving the wellbeing of older people in
care homes.
A writing group in a nursing home in Scotland shows that residents with dementia can be empowered to express themselves and staff enticed to be creative in their approach to care. Read about project
American article (2019) about what happens in our brains when we create something.
The mission of Painting in Hospitals is to transform the UK’s health by using world-class art to inspire better health and wellbeing for patients, carers and communities.
Find out more about Painting in Hospitals’ art loans and activities for care homes.
Arts Derbyshire Toolkit is aimed at staff and Activity Co-ordinators in care settings, wishing to plan and deliver arts projects. This Toolkit was produced as part of the ‘Music in Care Homes’ project which took place in 2010 and 2011. It includes information on funding, recruiting artists, promoting projects and evaluation.