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NEW YORK, NY, June 13, 2023 — Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice (Coalition) is launching an international grassroots campaign to transform the narrative about and shatter the silence around dementia and through “Taking It to the Streets,” a global campaign during the week of September 18-24, 2023, during World Alzheimer’s Month. The Coalition is asking its 815 plus members and its partner organizations to host public-facing events, activities, and conversations that present a creative alternative to the fear, stigma and hopelessness surrounding dementia, and then share their celebrations and stories on social media using hashtags #reimaginingdementia, #takingittothestreets, #shatteringthesilence.

This new resource inspires alternative ways of thinking about dementia and encourages everyone to take part in making this a better world for people living with dementia.

Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice has teamed with two-time Grammy Award winning musician Simon Law to create the original song, “Let’s Reimagine” featuring people living with dementia as soloists, chorus members and through spoken word.

Dementia-Inclusive Choices for Exercise (DICE) has developed a new series of tools and resources to help exercise providers create inclusive programs and spaces for people living with dementia and support their knowledge and confidence to continue or begin exercising.

Congratulations to our Co-principal Investigator and Co-lead, Sherry Dupuis, who has been appointed a University Research Chair, University of Waterloo.

Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of dementia activists and allies who share a diverse and humanizing vision of care and support that promotes inclusion, relationality, creativity, joy and the possibility of growth for everyone living with, and impacted by, dementia.

The PiDC Alliance are accepting donations of new or used iPads or other devices and will deliver them to long-term care and retirement homes.

On January 19, 2018, Toronto, the film version of the researched-based play Cracked: new light on dementia was released along side a new website with access to download the film.

The Willowgrove Dream Weavers’ Culture Change Committee hosted a day of celebration at Chartwell’s Willowgrove Long Term Care Residence on Saturday June 3^rd.

Paige Morrissey, an accredited music therapist in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wrote Rewind to give a voice to seniors, particularly persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias.