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Seniors & Art Therapy
This section focuses on art therapy for seniors and senior-related, art therapy stories.
Making Art Accessible to People With Dementia
As you know, we’re always interested in how art and art therapy affects seniors. We’ve written about how art therapy helps people with alzheimer’s improve memory. And now The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a new program called Meet Me: Making Art Accessible to People with Dementia. This is a resource that was recently published by the Department of Education and contains interviews with experts, information from an evidence-based research study, guides and more…all related to art, aging, and Alzheimer’s. Continue reading »
Filed as Seniors & Art Therapy | Comment (1)Art Therapy With Older Adults & The Elderly
The following video isn’t the best quality or best produced. But it does showcase how art can help senior citizens, the elderly, and older adults in general. It provides some personal accounts of how older people “stay alive” by utilizing the creative aspects of making art. It shows how art therapy can help improve the quality of life for people as they get older. The video also touches on how art therapy can help the elderly cope with the psychological effects of aging, illness and disability.
Beyond Words: Art Therapy With Older Adults
Filed as Seniors & Art Therapy | Comments (7)Performing Art Therapy and Geriatrics
The following is a slideshow presentation about performing arts therapy and geriatrics from Dr. D. Dutta Roy from the Psychology Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata. Continue reading »
Filed as Seniors & Art Therapy | Comment (1)Art Therapy Helps Alzheimer’s Patients Improve Memory
Photo Credit: John McCoy/Los Angeles Daily News Photographer
There was a recent news story about a Woodland Hills physician, Dr. Arnold Bresky, who calls himself a “preventive gerontologist.” He’s been utilizing art therapy for patients that have Alzheimer’s and dementia.
He claims he has achieved a 70% success rate with in improving his patient’s memories. Continue reading »
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