Creative Dementia
engaging people living with dementia with the creative arts
$58.89
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
17 December 2025
Summary
Unleashing Creativity: A Handbook for Dementia Care Through the Arts
This handbook examines why, how and where creative arts can help meet the social, psychological and occupational needs of people living with dementia and their family carers.
Bringing together case studies of music, dance, poetry, digital arts and more, this book explores the core skills needed to co-create inspiring programmes in various settings. Foregrounding the lived experience of people living with de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781805010357 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1805010352 |
| Author: | Maria Pasiecznik Parsons, Richard Coaten, Various Authors, Alex Coulter, Jane Spiro, John Daniel, Charlotte Cunningham, Michael Bryan, Pat Winslow, Melanie Brierley |
| Publisher: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Imprint: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Maria Pasiecznik Parsons
Maria Pasiecznik Parsons is CEO of Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN). Maria is a professional social worker, academic and researcher, senior manager in dementia care and NHS and social care specialist consultant. Maria sits on the Boards of Frames of Mind and Dementia Community, has lived experience of being a family carer and lives in Bristol.
Richard Coaten PhD is a registered dance movement psychotherapist (RDMP) with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (UK) and is a national and international specialist in non-verbal, movement and dance-based practices with people living with dementia and their carers. Richard sits on the boards of CDAN and the Balbir Singh Dance Company and is a Churchill Fellow (2010). He lives in West Yorkshire.
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