Article Category: Arts/Communication

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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