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The role and value of the arts for people living with dementia
Dr Hannah ZeiligJohn KillickDr Chris Fox
• Dementia?
• What are the arts and what is value?
• Themes from the literature review
• Concluding thoughts
What are the arts?
What is value?
“Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensible for the life and progress towards the well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
Leo Tolstoy
Participative arts for people with dementia
Music for thought
Verd-de-gris
Visual to vocal Elderflowers
Literature review - case studies to large scale
RCTs
- quality of life- wellbeing - cognition- emotion and mood - activity level- behavioural change- episodic memory- long-term memory - verbal fluency
Song, music, dance, poetry, writing, visual art and drama have all positively contributed to dementia care.
Major themes:Arts enjoyable, new learning, help social isolation, positive impact on cognition, arts as a place of contact, stable aesthetic judgments
Community-based arts• Literary arts have a positive
social impact
• Live music improves mental wellbeing
• Singing and viewing and discussing visual art increases sustained attention
• Singing and dance can reduce challenging behaviour in people with severe dementia
“Music connects us and makes us all equal, essentially.”
