Others Making a Difference

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Creative Art Co

Wall-decor that makes the home look and feel like home is offered through Creative Art Co. It has been used to help divert individuals with dementia from exit seeking, to make every inch of the home filled with activities and things to do, and to help stimulate the senses. Visit www.creativeartco.com for more information!

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Francesca Durham | Healing with the Arts & Harps | Finding Inspiration

Her work focuses on bringing the qualities of therapeutic harp music to those in long term care facilities. After fours years of studying two therapeutic harp music programs back to back, Francesca Durham is now a certified clinical musician and therapeutic harp practitioner. Along with providing therapeutic harp music to small groups and at the bedside, I also facilitate recreational harp workshop tailored to suit seniors. #HaltonHarps #musictherapy #seniors

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A small group of students in the Recreation Therapy program at Niagara College, with the assistance of Professor Christine Wilkinson, decided to prepare a gift bag for every resident of two LTC homes to open on Christmas day. Check out the whole story here: https://dementiability.com/niagara-college-knows-how-to-connect-covid-with-community-and-caring-and-cheer-for-the-holiday-season/

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Congratulations to Christiana Egi for all of the wonderful change she is making in dementia care! Read the article about her continued success here https://www.beingpatient.com/christiana-egi-alexis-lodge/ ------------

Weighted blankets have proven to be a valuable intervention for individuals living with dementia. Naomi Dyon, Joanna Sue, Natalie Tchakerian and Kathryn Fisher, have recently published a research study of the effects of weighted blankets for individuals in late stage dementia. Check out the article here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019745722100272X?dgcid=coauthor

a vase filled with blue flowers sitting on top of a white table next to a sign that says, the how is the wow

A wonderful dietary staff in St. Catherines made this for me when she attended the DementiAbility workshop back in 2019. It now sits proudly in the background of my Zoom workshops! We are so lucky to meet and work with such incredible people.

Writing, Aging and Spirit: Writing Down Our Years: Ellen B. Ryan Ph. D., McMaster University

Alzheimer’s Disease 2012: What We All Need To Know [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Music and the Brain - Katie Marriner

Music and the Brain by Katie Marriner, via Behance LISTEN TO QURAN https://soundcloud.com/dr-najeeb-alrefae/chaire

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The Growing Season Trailer (formerly Present Perfect)

Nursing Home And Preschool Combine To Form One Place