Schweitzer P (2024) Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Nurturing relationships through the arts. Journal of Dementia Care 32(6)37-39. Pam Schweitzer describes a typical RYCT session in which trained volunteers welcome and support eight couples to explore key memories through the arts, a process that helps to put their current challenging situations into the context of a...
Gibbons B (2024) An apprenticeship: facilitating reminiscence arts in dementia care. Journal of Dementia Care 32(4) 12-13. Barney Gibbons gives a personal account of the Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today apprenticeship course, with a special focus on his particular interest: performance. Key points Since 1997, The European Reminiscence Network has run iterations of Remembering Yesterday, Caring...
Bray J et al (2024) Community engagement with heritage-based resources online. Journal of Dementia Care 32(3) 38-41. This article is a companion piece to the work reported by Aaron Smith and colleagues in the January/February 2024 issue of JDC (Smith et al 2024). While the earlier work focused on the use of a new life...
Woods S (2023) Evaluating a reminiscence project (RYCT) in a residential care home. Journal of Dementia Care 31(6)21-23 As a well known arts-based reminiscence programme, Remembering Yesterday Caring Today has traditionally been delivered in community settings. Sandie Woods set out to discover how it would work in a care home and shares her findings. Author...
Maria Mullan wonders why we often wait until someone dies before saying how much they mean to us, and suggests that we create ‘tribute books’ alongside life story books Author/s: Maria Mullan For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Agnes Houston describes trying out a holiday cottage specially designed for people with dementia. Author/s: Agnes Houston For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Cathy Dakin argues that everyone has a spiritual dimension to their lives – and that only by offering spiritual care to people with dementia will we be meeting their whole needs Author/s: Cathy Dakin For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you...
Ruth Burgess tells how a time-limited life story project worked hard to support staff to continue the work Author/s: Ruth Burgess For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Kim Wylie tells how regular, gentle sensory sessions with Beatrice, a care home resident with dementia, drew out vivid responses from a woman thought to be isolated and withdrawn Author/s: Kim Wylie For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Chia Swee Hong and Jane M Hibberd report on a joint project between the Alzheimer’s Society and Suffolk museums Author/s: Chia Swee Hong, Jane M Hibberd For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....