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Advancing Person Centered Care through
Meaningful Art Experience
Quality Care Community Conference XIII
December 13, 2012
Jennie Smith-Peers
Executive Director, Elders Share the Arts
Carolyn Halpin-Healy
Executive Director, Arts & Minds
Today’s Facilitators
To introduce health care providers and clinicians to
innovative ways in which to provide
person-centered care with inexpensive non-
pharmaceutical interventions.
Purpose
Best practices in creative aging
The connection between Kitwood’smodel of person-centered care and art-centered activities
Tools to facilitate arts programming
The use of personal story within art-making
The activation of communication skills in response to art
Where to find additional resources to support art-making residencies
Workshop Outcomes
Engaging with art provides an
opportunity for living in the moment
and focusing attention.
In order to create the right
atmosphere, we ask everyone to turn
off your cell phones until the end of
the workshop.
We’re asking everyone to be ready to
try something new
And we remind you that you are
entering a failure free zone!
Working Agreement
Our Mission: Arts & Minds is a non-profit organization committed to improving quality of life
for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. In museums, community
centers and nursing homes we provide meaningful art-centered activities to create positive
cognitive experiences, enhance communication and reduce isolation. Our programs
empower people with dementia, family members, professional caregivers, and educators to
strengthen social, emotional and spiritual bonds by engaging with art.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
The Photographer, 1942
Memory
Vision
Language
Which areas of your brain were stimulated by this activity?
Viewing art together inspires conversation that taps into memory, cognition and emotion and imagination.
Meeting Basic Needs of People with Dementia & their Caregivers
Kitwood, Dementia Reconsidered, 1997. p82, fig.5.2
Aesthetic experience stimulates the brain and memory while
strengthening social, emotional and spiritual bonds.
Recollection of film clips and post-film emotions ratings following the happiness induction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2010www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0914054107
•Emotional experience may be independent of memory of the stimulus
Can the conscious experience of an emotion persist once
the emotion-inducing event is forgotten?
Response & Interpretation
Positive engagement with art and ideas connects us to one another and lifts the spirits!
“We can say what we feel here.”
Creative Expression
Hands-on activities awaken creativity.
“I think it’s beautiful”
Arts & Minds at Isabella
February 2011
Participants may experience reduced anxiety
Elders Share the Arts (ESTA), founded in 1979, affirms the creative potential of older adults and upholds their time-
honored role as bearers of history and culture by using the power of the arts to transmit their stories and life
experiences for the benefit of all generations.
Legacy Arts History Alive!
Pearls Of
Wisdom
Arts & Memory
Living History Arts Methodology
Reminiscence Oral History
Art
Person-centered approach to creating art with residents
Using memories to create art work
Share the Art
Display the Art
Life Collage
“It relieves stress, and helps me communicate with people better.” - Participant
“I learned new ways of creating things…My imagination is set free.” - Participant
Benefits of successful creative aging programs
Enhances the quality of life of older adults.
Meets the needs of older adults and their caregivers.
Demonstrates sequential learning and often transformational learning.
Participants experience an enriched connection with their cultural roots, practices and beliefs.
Elders see themselves as valuable members of their communities.
Elder participants in eldercare communities/facilities regard their environments as part of their community.
All participants may experience reduced anxiety.
Evaluation
Feel free to contact us!
Carolyn Halpin-Healy
Executive Director
646-873-0712
Jennie Smith-Peers
Executive Director
718-398-3870
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