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The Re-imagining Dementia through the Arts Artwork is now viewable on our website.

In this arts and community-based research project we brought persons with dementia, family members, visual and performance artists, and researchers together in a one-day workshop to explore the implications of the tragedy discourse for persons and families experiencing dementia and work with them to begin to create an alternative discourse.

Working collaboratively, eight visual and poetic expressions were created that reflect what persons with dementia want the world to know about them: despite loss and sadness they are supported by loving networks, embracing life, remaining active and engaged, breaking the silence, and transforming with new possibilities. 

Congratulations! goes out to Sherry Dupuis for receiving the Partnership in Dementia award at the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program - Event Through our Eyes: Living with Dementia

Drs. Darla Fortune and Sacha Geer have just completed a webinar with the Alzheimer Knowledge Exchange!

The webinar  is calledDiscovering ‘the best of what is’ in dementia care:The second phase of the Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance’s Culture Change Process

Watch the webinar and download the slides!!

Inspired by the Music and Memory project, researchers at the PiDC Alliance were pleased to donate more than 20 iPods and other Mp3 players to staff at the Bloomington Cove Long Term Care facility on behalf of the Partnering Together for Change Culture Change Coalition.

Discovering ‘the best of what is’ in dementia care:

The second phase of the Partnerships in Dementia Care (PiDC) Alliance’s Culture Change Process

October 23rd, 2013 | 12:00  - 1:00 PM EST

Today marks the start of an exciting part of the Discovery phase of the Culture Change process at Yee Hong - Markham.

Multi-lingual volunteers from Yee Hong will begin interviewing staff members at Yee Hong to Discover 'the best of what is' at this Long Term Care home in Markham, Ontario.  Most of the staff at Yee Hong are native Chinese speakers, so volunteers fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and even a Hakka speaker are on hand to confidentially learn from staff members. 

Are you a recreation or leisure professional looking to incorporate the principles of Culture Change into your practice?

The Partnerships in Dementia Care Alliance is proud to share information from a day-long intensive workshop created by Co-Principle Investigator Dr. Sherry Dupuis, alongside Jennifer Carson and Dr. Colleen Whyte.

This resource explains the principles of culture change, their link to leisure practice and provides all the information necessary to lead or work through your own workshop with other recreation and leisure professionals.

Co-Prinicipal Investigator of the PiDC Alliance, Dr. Sherry Dupuis is shortly to England for two exciting talks. 

First, Dr. Dupuis will be a keynote speaker at the opening of a new Research Institute on Dementia at Southampton  on Tuesday September 10th  from 3:00pm-4:30pm.  Detail about the DARE Network and the event here.

The Partnering Together for Change team at Bloomington Cove is working hard to spread the word about Culture Change.