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Article By:
Elizabeth Lokon PhD , Jennifer M.
Kinney PhD & Suzanne Kunkel PhD (2012):
Building Bridges Across Age and
Cognitive Barriers Through Art: College Students' Reflections
on an Intergenerational Program With
Elders who Have Dementia, Journal of Intergenerational
Relationships, 10:4, 337-354
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Introduction: The
positive impact of intergenerational service learning experience
on college students' academic and personal development is well
documented. However, it is not clear whether students engaged in
such programs with elders who have dementia gain similar
benefits. Qualitative analysis of 300 journals written by 59
students participating in the Opening Minds Through Art
intergenerational art program for people with dementia revealed
that facilitating the creative expressions of elders with
dementia resulted in many positive gains for college students.
The experience enhanced their academic learning, and they felt
rewarded for making a difference in the lives of others. Their
attitudes toward the elders became more positive, and they were
able to build genuine and reciprocal relationships with the
elders. In the students' eyes, the elders were artists,
teachers, and friends. Further research is needed to analyze the
impact of such an intergenerational art program from the
perspective of the elders
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Article By: Julie Gross McAdam –
PhD candidate
School of Education Victoria University. |
Introduction: The images that accompanied the presentation
delivered on 22nd October, 2009 were gathered during the course of the
MAC.ART program. MAC.ART stands for McAdam Aged Care Art Recreation
Therapy, a program designed and introduced into the
Australian aged care sector by Julie Gross McAdam, the paper’s
presenter, in 2001. Since then, more two thousand five hundred artists
have illustrated their traditions and memories by giving voice to over
twenty major artworks. The works showcase the often hidden creative
ability of Australians living with dementia and each tells a culturally
significant story.
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Article By:
Dr Patricia Baines, author of this paper is trained as an Anthropologist,
Psychologist and Art Therapist. |
Introduction:
Honouring the capacity to create in people with dementia is the
underlying intention of this paper. All human beings are
creative, but, when one is living with dementia, that creativity
may need to be supported and encouraged by others trained to
foster creative expression. The paper is entitled “Nurturing the
heart” to indicate that, as human beings, people with dementia,
perhaps even more than before, need to feel part of a caring
community, which values and respects them. They need to be
valued, not just for what they have contributed in the past,
but, as they are right now. Watching a person with dementia
painting or writing is to be filled with awe, for, regardless of
memory loss, the person is expressing and revealing a unique
identity.
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Article By:
Ruth Bright,
Dr. AM, Past President of the Australian National Music Therapy
Association and the World Federation of Music Therapy and
Adjunct Lecturer at the ‘Australian’ University of New England's
School of Health |
Introduction:
A pioneer music therapist since 1960, Ruth Bright is well-known for her
work and writings on music therapy; she is the author of 12 books, 3 of
which have been published in translation - one each in German and
Spanish, and two in Japanese. She has written about music therapy in
psychiatry, geriatric rehabilitation, dementia and grief resolution; and
is on the state committee of the Australian Music Therapy Association.
Ruth has served two terms as National President of that association and
has also served a three-year term as President of the World Federation
of Music Therapy. She is also an Adjunct lecturer for the University of
New England's School of Health, and gives guest lectures at several
other academic institutions.
Dementia is a major challenge to society, and - as we live longer -
there will be increasing numbers of people whose memories have ‘ let
them down’. We may imagine that everybody thinks the same about the
occurrence of dementia in a family member: first disbelief, then shock,
disappointment, anxiety, sadness at the loss of an active relationship,
fear of the future. Often too there is guilt in recalling irritability
and anger over inexplicable behaviour – which later proved to be a
fore-runner of dementia.
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The Society for the Arts in
Dementia Care, Vancouver Canada presents
Conferences & Workshops on Creative Expression, Communication and
Dementia with support from our affiliate
The Society for the Arts in Dementia Care, Perth
Australia
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