Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives

In this online course you will discover how the arts can create common ground between people, and in doing so, learn what we can all do to improve the quality of life and care for people living with different dementias.

Estimated learning time is approximately 2 hours per week across 4 weeks, at your own pace. Each of the 4 weeks will showcase current best practice, explain the limits of our current understanding, and set ambitious goals for enhancing the lives of anyone affected by one of these conditions.

The topics covered include the following:

• Seeing the dementias differently through the arts and seeing the arts differently through the dementias
• How can moments be understood, experienced and measured?
• Creating Common Ground: The arts, equality and dementia
• Language & Communication: How can we change the conversation?

Sign up for free or choose the paid upgrade to gain 8 CPD points recognised by the Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH).