Healing Arts Therapies and Person-Centered Dementia Care (Bradford Dementia Group)

Offering practical advice for arts therapists and health care professionals, this book emphasizes the importance of putting the individual before the illness to provide holistic, person-centred support for people with dementia.

The contributors are all practising healing arts therapists who show how music, dance and the visual arts can be used in partnership with person-centred care to promote improved memory, reduced anxiety, increased self-esteem, better communication and successful group interaction. They use case studies to demonstrate the ways in which therapists can encourage engagement of those with dementia with sound, touch, movement and visual forms, making this a positive and practical book for all those working to provide person-centred dementia

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184310038X
• ISBN13: 9781843100386
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A nice overview, but not very in depth

This is a really nice book for someone starting out working with the elderly in a creative arts therapy field. The book is a quick, short and easy read, and demonstrates the benefits of art, music and movement therapies and gerontology. As an art therapist, I think the art therapy section was accurate, but not very detailed or in depth. A lay person or beginner may not be able to fully grasp the philosophy or benefits of art therapy, but there are many other books out there for that. Nevertheless, it's a great read for a "taste" of several creative arts therapies and how they benefit and can be used with this population.