Creative Approach To Dementia

As my project is a creative based project that is based on technique that has helped hopsice patients such as Dementia suffers does this actually work.


Can Dementia be helped by a creative approach?

There is 800,000 people living with dementia in the UK there are many ways to treat and care for dementia suffers but according to recent research from the Department of Health and Alzheimer's UK has argued that an activity based approach could help dementia suffers.

  "Activities such as painting have been proven to help people reconnect with their surroundings and lessen their dependency on anti-psychotic drugs."Atkinson-Willes,B. (2012). A creative approach to helping people with dementia. 


I think using John Whyman's technique could not only benefit the Hospice patient he works with now but i think these technique could be used by other dementia patient suffers to help them reconnect with their surroundings, family and friends. 

I think this project could be a something the dementia institute might want to know about so even though this is only project i am still looking to the future for this project as i think it would be beneficial to dementia duffers now and future suffers. 

here is a link to the dementia institute:

http://www.salford.ac.uk/salford-institute-for-dementia