Audience: Dementia

Dementia-friendly screenings create a slice of normal life for people living with dementia, a chance to experience film in a relaxed and supported environment. Cinemas across the UK are providing screenings throughout the year, but World Alzheimer’s Month is an opportunity to highlight these events.

Dementia-friendly screenings are sometimes called relaxed screenings, though these can also be suitable for people with multiple sensory sensitivities or different conditions such as autism spectrum disorder or learning disabilities.

Screenings are adapted to make the environment more suitable for people living with dementia. Sometimes, simple adaptations can be enough for someone to experience a slice of ordinary life and enjoy a cinema experience with their companions.

Find out more about running dementia-friendly screenings here or check out the downloads on this page.

downloads
* Dementia-friendly screenings A guide for cinemas.pdf * FAN Access - Inclusive screenings - Dementia.pdf * Dementia friendly screening surveys.zip * Dementia friendly screening - information pack - template.docx

Resources

10 facts on dementia
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Dementia-friendly cinema at Tyneside
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Designing a Dementia friendly website
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Journeying Together: An Unforgettable Pilot Programme
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Young onset dementia facts & figures
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Supporting a LGBT Person with Dementia
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Guidance
A Life More Ordinary
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Case study
Dementia-friendly screenings: A guide for cinemas
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Young onset dementia facts & figures

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As with dementia generally, there is conflicting information about the prevalence of young onset dementia.  The low levels of awareness and the difficulties of diagnosing the condition at working-age mean popularly used statistics are likely to be inaccurate and do not reflect the true number of people who are affected.

10 facts on dementia

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Dementia is a syndrome, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, caused by a variety of brain illnesses that affect memory, thinking, behaviour and ability to perform everyday activities. The number of people living with dementia worldwide is currently estimated at 47 million and is projected to increase to 75 million by 2030. The number … More

Designing a Dementia friendly website

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Some well-established web design basics: minimize the number of choices that someone has to make; create self-explanatory navigation tools; help people get to what they’re looking for as quickly as possible.

An Evidence Review of the Impact of Participatory Arts on Older People

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The Inquiry Report, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing – Second Edition, presents the findings of two years of research, evidence-gathering and discussions with patients, health and social care professionals, artists and arts administrators, academics, people in local government, ministers, other policy-makers and parliamentarians from both Houses of Parliament.