Editor’s Pick | Free to All: Putting Me into Memory Services – The PMIMS Study and Photovoice Exhibition 

Ghumra A, Reynolds J (2025) Putting Me into Memory Services – The PMIMS Study and Photovoice Exhibition. Journal of Dementia Care 33(3) 24-26.  Aqsa Ghumra and Josephine Reynolds describe a study co-produced with partner organisations representing the Chinese, South Asian and Caribbean communities of Sheffield. Participants answered researchers’ questions using photographs—the Photovoice method. These photos…

JDC asks: What are the best ways to ensure people living with dementia, and their care partners, have access to the benefits the arts can bring?

JDC Asks. Journal of Dementia Care 33(3) 12-14. Kieun Kwon, Associate Director of Wellbeing and Dementia Services, Runwood Homes Senior LivingTo ensure people living with dementia, and their care partners, have access to the benefits the arts can bring, it’s vital to focus on enabling elements, reskilling, reminiscence, catharsis, and simply being playful! Enabling elements ensure…...

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Singing together in a group

Singing brings people together – the Welsh know this well with their strong traditions of community singing. Musician Nia Davies Williams reflects on her experiences of singing with groups of people with dementia Davies Williams N (2025) Singing together in a group. Journal of Dementia Care 33(3) 14-15. The tendency amongst people who have been…...

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Dementia: the Musical

Killick J (2025) Dementia: the Musical. Journal of Dementia Care 33(1)20-22. From the show: (left above) Kirsty Malone, Fiona Wood and Ross Allan; (right above) Pauline Lockhart and Fiona Wood. Photos by Kelman Greig-Kicks John Killick sings the praises of a ground-breaking production written byRon Coleman and involving three founder members of the Scottish DementiaWorking…

Time Bandits or The Alchemy of the Arts

Latham I, Seall J (2025) Time Bandits or The Alchemy of the Arts. Journal of Dementia Care 33(1)17-19. Judy Seall and Isabelle Latham tell the story of Time Bandits Arts Club, a flexible, relationship-centred approach to intergenerational arts activities in a care home Author Details Isabelle Latham is researcher in residence, Hallmark Care Homes Time…...

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A celebration of the arts

By Maria Pasiecznik Parsons, Creative Dementia Arts Network This journal has always championed the arts in dementia care. Creative activities and arts offer people living with dementia opportunities to experience pleasure, inspiration and stimulation, express their feelings, emotions and ideas, and to socialise and maintain social connections that enhance health and wellbeing and quality of…

Creative Space: enabling empowerment and joy

Hastings S (2024) Creative Space: enabling empowerment and joy. Journal of Dementia Care 32(6)34-36. Shelley Hastings describes Resonate Arts’ Creative Spaces — inclusive social sessions where people living with dementia and their carers feel welcome and safe to participate in a wide range of arts activities including print-making, film making, animation, clowning, physical theatre, improvisation,…