Arts/Communication

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…

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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 painting

Szczelkun S (2023) Dementia painting. Journal of Dementia Care 31(3) 20-21. Stefan Szczelkun’s mother Joan Colnbrook, who had vascular dementia, loved to paint. He tells the story behind his book, Dementia Painting, and how his mum’s passion enabled her to express herself as memory and language faded. My mother Joan Colnbrook was an artist who…...

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Thirty years of poetry and dementia

Killick J (2022) Thirty years of poetry and dementia. Journal of Dementia Care 30(5) 17-19. Poet and writer John Killick looks back on 30 years of writing poems with people with dementia, remembering some of the poems published in JDC and elsewhere, and anticipating his new book, an illustrated anthology of dementia poems from his…...

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