Creative Spaces - dementia and environment

Creative Spaces archive - selected news highlights

• 11.06.2012 International digital artists help give people with dementia a voice. Sensory Trust and FEAST have commissioned seven artists to create a series of short digital pieces to interpret poetry written with people with dementia in Cornwall.
• 22.05.2012 Nuns and neighbourhoods. Your chance to join in with the Big Care Home Conversation and follow some great links including an award-winning poetry project in a convent.
• 01.05.2012 Free spring and summer creative workshops! As part of our aim to support more people with dementia and their carers, we are running a series of FREE creative workshops in areas around St. Austell, Falmouth and Camborne.
• 25.04.2012 New dementia-friendly garden opens at Trevarna. The rain held off just long enough for our happy garden opening, lovely to see so many people join us on the day and residents out in the sun enjoying their new garden spaces!
• 20.03.2012 FREE factsheets! An important part of this project is sharing information about using outdoor environments and activities to raise the quality of life for people with dementia and benefit the wider community as a result.
• 21.10.2011 Use outdoor spaces creatively in residential homes. Article on the Alzheimer's Disease International website - turn an under-used outdoor space in your memory care/residential care home into a creative space that is open to residents with dementia and the outside community -- and so much more.
• 01.06.2011 The Sensory Trust work with Cornwall Care to celebrate the joy of living. Article in Cornwall Care's ninth edition of My Say.
• 21.03.2011 Training helps builds confidence in Young People. Young people gain a basic understanding of dementia
• 10.02.2011 Work begins at Trevarna House. Caroline Chick reports on progress in this article from the Cornish Guardian
• 14.01.2011 Images from a dementia ward. Maja Daniels photographs residents; Andrea Gillies reflects on the journey there and what lies beyond the locked door.
• 08.12.2010 Outcomes for the first year - a round-up of the highlights, outcomes and lessons from the first twelve months.
• 02.12.2010 Bulb planting - seasonal activities to engage older people with the community and the environment
• 30.11.2010 Pumpkin carving - activities to engage older people with the community and the environment
• 25.10.2010 The influence of social relationships on risk for mortality is comparable with well-established risk factors for mortality.
• 14.10.2010 Walking 'could ward off dementia and mental decline' - Older people who get about by walking are less likely to suffer mental decline or even dementia, a study says. An argument for public and communit spaces that are useable for older people.
• 23.07.2010 Dementia Uncovered - two free half-day workshops in St Austell
• 04.06.2010 Engagement Activities - the first round of Creative Spaces engagement activities takes place
• 27.03.2010 The first Creative Spaces group activity for young people, care staff and residents held at Trevarna House, St. Austell. 
• 04.02.2010 Dementia 'losing out' to cancer in funding stakes - Dementia now costs the UK economy twice as much as cancer but gets a fraction of the funding to find causes and cures.
• 14.01.2010 Design and the National Dementia Strategy - two articles from the BBC
• 25.11.2009 'When the drugs don't work' - a recent report on the use of anti-psychotic "chemical restraints" on dementia sufferers reveals that up to 144,000 people are being given the drugs unnecessarily.
• 22.08.2009 Dementia, Community and Environment seminar report (Word 791k) - the Sensory Trust held a one-day conference at the Eden Project to discuss and share possible solutions to the issues that prevent older people with dementia from having a better quality of life through greater access to outdoor environments. Although there is an awareness that outdoor environments are of benefit to people’s health, providing supportive environments for positive health and well-being is still not seen as a high priority.  The conference was an opportunity to begin a dialogue about the benefits of access to green spaces for older people with dementia and to share knowledge and examples from professionals involved in improving the quality of life and social environments for people with dementia. Professionals from the UK and USA presented talks that highlighted examples of projects that involved people in having greater access to their local environment leading to an increase in social interaction with others in their community.
• 14.03.2009 National Dementia Strategy - the National Dementia Strategy sets out 17 objectives for improving the lives and care of people with dementia over the next five years. What do we think, and does it mention outdoor environments?

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