Building the present together.

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People with dementia may have hidden artistic talents Frontotemporal dementia’s breakdown of inhibitions may spur on creativity.

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"I remember" is a blessing most of us take for granted. Share your memories and help to fight Alzheimer's disease. Tell a memory:

http://i-remember.fr/en

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a moment to share.

A beautiful moment I had with Daft Punk and my gran-mother. I was listenning to get lucky , and she remembered somehow Daft Punk and she started to dance on get lucky. It was a rare moment when she had all her lucidity because she is alzheimer. It made me cry. 

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Amazing Village Just For People With Dementia Lets Them Live Normally And Safely

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an alzheimer 87 year old mother remember her daughter.

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Powerful Self-Portraits Reveal Artist’s Descent Into Alzheimer’s Disease

n 1995, at the age of 61, American artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In response to the illness, the London-based artist immediately began to paint an ambitious series of self-portraits. From the time of his diagnosis to 2000, when he was admitted to a nursing home, Utermohlen created a powerful documentation of his painful descent into dementia as a way to try to better understand his condition.

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Somehow, her Alzheimer’s made her more open, more truthful. There’s a kind of odd poetry in dementia that picks out jagged, glittering pieces of truth, and makes you have to reassemble them. “You have an open heart” she’d say to me. “You can sense things. I can sense things too.” It was the closest we’d ever been, and probably the closest we would ever be. It was as deeply satisfying as it gets…

JACKIE KAY, poet (writing about her mother)

from Red Dust Road (Picador) p. 86

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House of Memories is about joining the dots that link us through our life experiences, our dreams and our shared histories. It targets carers, health and social providers and helps them to deliver a positive quality of life experience for people living with dementia.

The training programme provides participants with information about dementia as well as skills and resources for practical memory activities. 

More information at the link bellow:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/learning/projects/house-of-memories/about.aspx

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Create a playlist for someone with dementia.

The Playlist for Life project encourages the use of personally meaningful music on iPods in the care and treatment of people with dementia.

Through this website they offer guidance that can help you get started.

http://www.playlistforlife.org.uk

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In 2011, country music legend Glen Campbell was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.To make sure people remembered what he’s really about, he wrote a beautiful song called “I’m Not Gonna Miss You.” The song is a precursor to the documentary about his life, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me.”