Designing a Dementia friendly website
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.
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Tag: Alzheimers
An Evidence Review of the Impact of Participatory Arts on Older People
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.
Arts And Science Combine For Dementia Care
A new study looking at the benefits of visual art activities for people living with dementia should provide the evidence that decision-makers need.
Being Disabled In Britain – A Journey Less Equal
Review into disability inequality in Great Britain, offering comprehensive evidence on whether our society lives up to its promise to be fair to all its citizens.
Dementia and Imagination: Research informed approaches to visual arts programmes
In 2013 and with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council, the Dementia & Imagination team established a clear set of principles to underpin its visual arts research programme with people experiencing dementia in three geographical areas of the UK.
Dementia – Through The Eyes Of Women
Dementia disproportionately affects women, but their experiences and voices are missing from research and literature. This project aimed to inspire people to think differently about women and dementia by using stories and reflections from individual women to inform the debate in a unique, inspiring and insightful way.
Technically Older: An update on digital arts and creative ageing
Update on Digital Arts for Older People report. Shows progress and lots of case studies included.
Digital Arts and Older People: What is distinctive about working with older people using creative technology?
Outline of digital projects (both where digital is arts medium or tool for project)… discusses some of the blockers for experience and the cultural presuppositions that older people cannot work with digital. Useful info on dementia specific projects and activities. Good for mindset sourcing.
Words fail us: dementia and the arts
With nearly one million Britons in the grip of dementia, it’s hardly surprising that writers and artists should increasingly tackle the subject. But can the arts ever illuminate a condition that by its very nature resists all understanding?
Forgetting but not gone: dementia and the arts
A fascinating project is harnessing the power of the arts to unlock creativity and communication.
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